diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile b/tools/perf/Makefile
index 544367cf6d5..53c1e93ac43 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile
@@ -14,103 +14,23 @@ endif
 # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile.
 # Define V=2 to have an even more verbose compile.
 #
-# Define SNPRINTF_RETURNS_BOGUS if your are on a system which snprintf()
-# or vsnprintf() return -1 instead of number of characters which would
-# have been written to the final string if enough space had been available.
-#
-# Define FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES if your are on a system which succeeds
-# when attempting to read from an fopen'ed directory.
-#
 # Define CURLDIR=/foo/bar if your curl header and library files are in
 # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
 #
 # Define EXPATDIR=/foo/bar if your expat header and library files are in
 # /foo/bar/include and /foo/bar/lib directories.
 #
-# Define NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT if you don't have d_ino in your struct dirent.
-#
-# Define NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT if your platform defines DT_UNKNOWN but lacks
-# d_type in struct dirent (latest Cygwin -- will be fixed soonish).
-#
 # Define NO_C99_FORMAT if your formatted IO functions (printf/scanf et.al.)
 # do not support the 'size specifiers' introduced by C99, namely ll, hh,
 # j, z, t. (representing long long int, char, intmax_t, size_t, ptrdiff_t).
 # some C compilers supported these specifiers prior to C99 as an extension.
 #
-# Define NO_STRCASESTR if you don't have strcasestr.
-#
-# Define NO_MEMMEM if you don't have memmem.
-#
-# Define NO_STRTOUMAX if you don't have strtoumax in the C library.
-# If your compiler also does not support long long or does not have
-# strtoull, define NO_STRTOULL.
-#
-# Define NO_SETENV if you don't have setenv in the C library.
-#
-# Define NO_UNSETENV if you don't have unsetenv in the C library.
-#
-# Define NO_MKDTEMP if you don't have mkdtemp in the C library.
-#
-# Define NO_SYS_SELECT_H if you don't have sys/select.h.
-#
-# Define NO_FINK if you are building on Darwin/Mac OS X, have Fink
-# installed in /sw, but don't want PERF to link against any libraries
-# installed there.  If defined you may specify your own (or Fink's)
-# include directories and library directories by defining CFLAGS
-# and LDFLAGS appropriately.
-#
-# Define NO_DARWIN_PORTS if you are building on Darwin/Mac OS X,
-# have DarwinPorts installed in /opt/local, but don't want PERF to
-# link against any libraries installed there.  If defined you may
-# specify your own (or DarwinPort's) include directories and
-# library directories by defining CFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately.
-#
-# Define NEEDS_LIBICONV if linking with libc is not enough (Darwin).
-#
-# Define NEEDS_SOCKET if linking with libc is not enough (SunOS,
-# Patrick Mauritz).
-#
-# Define NO_MMAP if you want to avoid mmap.
-#
-# Define NO_PTHREADS if you do not have or do not want to use Pthreads.
-#
-# Define NO_PREAD if you have a problem with pread() system call (e.g.
-# cygwin.dll before v1.5.22).
-#
-# Define NO_TRUSTABLE_FILEMODE if your filesystem may claim to support
-# the executable mode bit, but doesn't really do so.
-#
-# Define NO_IPV6 if you lack IPv6 support and getaddrinfo().
-#
-# Define NO_SOCKADDR_STORAGE if your platform does not have struct
-# sockaddr_storage.
-#
-# Define NO_ICONV if your libc does not properly support iconv.
-#
-# Define OLD_ICONV if your library has an old iconv(), where the second
-# (input buffer pointer) parameter is declared with type (const char **).
-#
 # Define NO_DEFLATE_BOUND if your zlib does not have deflateBound.
 #
 # Define NO_R_TO_GCC_LINKER if your gcc does not like "-R/path/lib"
 # that tells runtime paths to dynamic libraries;
 # "-Wl,-rpath=/path/lib" is used instead.
 #
-# Define USE_NSEC below if you want perf to care about sub-second file mtimes
-# and ctimes. Note that you need recent glibc (at least 2.2.4) for this, and
-# it will BREAK YOUR LOCAL DIFFS! show-diff and anything using it will likely
-# randomly break unless your underlying filesystem supports those sub-second
-# times (my ext3 doesn't).
-#
-# Define USE_ST_TIMESPEC if your "struct stat" uses "st_ctimespec" instead of
-# "st_ctim"
-#
-# Define NO_NSEC if your "struct stat" does not have "st_ctim.tv_nsec"
-# available.  This automatically turns USE_NSEC off.
-#
-# Define NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT if your platform does not have st_blocks
-# field that counts the on-disk footprint in 512-byte blocks.
-#
 # Define ASCIIDOC8 if you want to format documentation with AsciiDoc 8
 #
 # Define DOCBOOK_XSL_172 if you want to format man pages with DocBook XSL v1.72.
@@ -282,8 +202,6 @@ BASIC_LDFLAGS =
 # Guard against environment variables
 BUILTIN_OBJS =
 BUILT_INS =
-COMPAT_CFLAGS =
-COMPAT_OBJS =
 LIB_H =
 LIB_OBJS =
 PYRF_OBJS =
@@ -329,7 +247,7 @@ LANG_BINDINGS =
 ALL_PROGRAMS = $(PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPTS)
 
 # what 'all' will build but not install in perfexecdir
-OTHER_PROGRAMS = $(OUTPUT)perf$X
+OTHER_PROGRAMS = $(OUTPUT)perf
 
 # Set paths to tools early so that they can be used for version tests.
 ifndef SHELL_PATH
@@ -538,22 +456,6 @@ endif # NO_DWARF
 
 -include arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile
 
-ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin)
-	ifndef NO_FINK
-		ifeq ($(shell test -d /sw/lib && echo y),y)
-			BASIC_CFLAGS += -I/sw/include
-			BASIC_LDFLAGS += -L/sw/lib
-		endif
-	endif
-	ifndef NO_DARWIN_PORTS
-		ifeq ($(shell test -d /opt/local/lib && echo y),y)
-			BASIC_CFLAGS += -I/opt/local/include
-			BASIC_LDFLAGS += -L/opt/local/lib
-		endif
-	endif
-	PTHREAD_LIBS =
-endif
-
 ifneq ($(OUTPUT),)
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -I$(OUTPUT)
 endif
@@ -707,110 +609,9 @@ ifndef CC_LD_DYNPATH
 	endif
 endif
 
-ifdef NEEDS_SOCKET
-	EXTLIBS += -lsocket
-endif
-ifdef NEEDS_NSL
-	EXTLIBS += -lnsl
-endif
-ifdef NO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_D_TYPE_IN_DIRENT
-endif
-ifdef NO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_D_INO_IN_DIRENT
-endif
-ifdef NO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_ST_BLOCKS_IN_STRUCT_STAT
-endif
-ifdef USE_NSEC
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DUSE_NSEC
-endif
-ifdef USE_ST_TIMESPEC
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DUSE_ST_TIMESPEC
-endif
-ifdef NO_NSEC
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_NSEC
-endif
 ifdef NO_C99_FORMAT
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_C99_FORMAT
 endif
-ifdef SNPRINTF_RETURNS_BOGUS
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DSNPRINTF_RETURNS_BOGUS
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/snprintf.o
-endif
-ifdef FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DFREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/fopen.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_STRCASESTR
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_STRCASESTR
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/strcasestr.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_STRTOUMAX
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_STRTOUMAX
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/strtoumax.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_STRTOULL
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_STRTOULL
-endif
-ifdef NO_SETENV
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_SETENV
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/setenv.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_MKDTEMP
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_MKDTEMP
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/mkdtemp.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_UNSETENV
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_UNSETENV
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/unsetenv.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_SYS_SELECT_H
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_SYS_SELECT_H
-endif
-ifdef NO_MMAP
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_MMAP
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/mmap.o
-else
-	ifdef USE_WIN32_MMAP
-		COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DUSE_WIN32_MMAP
-		COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/win32mmap.o
-	endif
-endif
-ifdef NO_PREAD
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_PREAD
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/pread.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_TRUSTABLE_FILEMODE
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_TRUSTABLE_FILEMODE
-endif
-ifdef NO_IPV6
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_IPV6
-endif
-ifdef NO_UINTMAX_T
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -Duintmax_t=uint32_t
-endif
-ifdef NO_SOCKADDR_STORAGE
-ifdef NO_IPV6
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -Dsockaddr_storage=sockaddr_in
-else
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -Dsockaddr_storage=sockaddr_in6
-endif
-endif
-ifdef NO_INET_NTOP
-	LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/inet_ntop.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_INET_PTON
-	LIB_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/inet_pton.o
-endif
-
-ifdef NO_ICONV
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_ICONV
-endif
-
-ifdef OLD_ICONV
-	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DOLD_ICONV
-endif
 
 ifdef NO_DEFLATE_BOUND
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_DEFLATE_BOUND
@@ -819,14 +620,6 @@ endif
 ifdef NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
 	export NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER
 endif
-ifdef NO_HSTRERROR
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_HSTRERROR
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/hstrerror.o
-endif
-ifdef NO_MEMMEM
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNO_MEMMEM
-	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/memmem.o
-endif
 ifdef INTERNAL_QSORT
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DINTERNAL_QSORT
 	COMPAT_OBJS += $(OUTPUT)compat/qsort.o
@@ -835,9 +628,6 @@ ifdef RUNTIME_PREFIX
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DRUNTIME_PREFIX
 endif
 
-ifdef DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS
-	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DDIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS
-endif
 ifdef NO_EXTERNAL_GREP
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_EXTERNAL_GREP
 endif
@@ -895,9 +685,6 @@ PERL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))
 
 LIBS = -Wl,--whole-archive $(PERFLIBS) -Wl,--no-whole-archive $(EXTLIBS)
 
-BASIC_CFLAGS += $(COMPAT_CFLAGS)
-LIB_OBJS += $(COMPAT_OBJS)
-
 ALL_CFLAGS += $(BASIC_CFLAGS)
 ALL_CFLAGS += $(ARCH_CFLAGS)
 ALL_LDFLAGS += $(BASIC_LDFLAGS)
@@ -910,9 +697,6 @@ export TAR INSTALL DESTDIR SHELL_PATH
 SHELL = $(SHELL_PATH)
 
 all:: shell_compatibility_test $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(LANG_BINDINGS) $(BUILT_INS) $(OTHER_PROGRAMS) $(OUTPUT)PERF-BUILD-OPTIONS
-ifneq (,$X)
-	$(foreach p,$(patsubst %$X,%,$(filter %$X,$(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) perf$X)), test '$p' -ef '$p$X' || $(RM) '$p';)
-endif
 
 all::
 
@@ -921,15 +705,15 @@ please_set_SHELL_PATH_to_a_more_modern_shell:
 
 shell_compatibility_test: please_set_SHELL_PATH_to_a_more_modern_shell
 
-strip: $(PROGRAMS) $(OUTPUT)perf$X
-	$(STRIP) $(STRIP_OPTS) $(PROGRAMS) $(OUTPUT)perf$X
+strip: $(PROGRAMS) $(OUTPUT)perf
+	$(STRIP) $(STRIP_OPTS) $(PROGRAMS) $(OUTPUT)perf
 
 $(OUTPUT)perf.o: perf.c $(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h $(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS
 	$(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -DPERF_VERSION='"$(PERF_VERSION)"' \
 		'-DPERF_HTML_PATH="$(htmldir_SQ)"' \
 		$(ALL_CFLAGS) -c $(filter %.c,$^) -o $@
 
-$(OUTPUT)perf$X: $(OUTPUT)perf.o $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(PERFLIBS)
+$(OUTPUT)perf: $(OUTPUT)perf.o $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(PERFLIBS)
 	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(OUTPUT)perf.o \
                $(BUILTIN_OBJS) $(LIBS) -o $@
 
@@ -1027,11 +811,11 @@ $(OUTPUT)util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.o: util/scripting-engines/tra
 $(OUTPUT)scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o: scripts/python/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.c $(OUTPUT)PERF-CFLAGS
 	$(QUIET_CC)$(CC) -o $@ -c $(ALL_CFLAGS) $(PYTHON_EMBED_CCOPTS) -Wno-redundant-decls -Wno-strict-prototypes -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-nested-externs $<
 
-$(OUTPUT)perf-%$X: %.o $(PERFLIBS)
+$(OUTPUT)perf-%: %.o $(PERFLIBS)
 	$(QUIET_LINK)$(CC) $(ALL_CFLAGS) -o $@ $(ALL_LDFLAGS) $(filter %.o,$^) $(LIBS)
 
 $(LIB_OBJS) $(BUILTIN_OBJS): $(LIB_H)
-$(patsubst perf-%$X,%.o,$(PROGRAMS)): $(LIB_H) $(wildcard */*.h)
+$(patsubst perf-%,%.o,$(PROGRAMS)): $(LIB_H) $(wildcard */*.h)
 
 # we compile into subdirectories. if the target directory is not the source directory, they might not exists. So
 # we depend the various files onto their directories.
@@ -1168,7 +952,7 @@ export perfexec_instdir
 
 install: all
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
-	$(INSTALL) $(OUTPUT)perf$X '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
+	$(INSTALL) $(OUTPUT)perf '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(perfexec_instdir_SQ)/scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/lib/Perf/Trace'
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(perfexec_instdir_SQ)/scripts/perl/bin'
 	$(INSTALL) $(OUTPUT)perf-archive -t '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(perfexec_instdir_SQ)'
@@ -1267,7 +1051,7 @@ distclean: clean
 
 clean:
 	$(RM) $(OUTPUT){*.o,*/*.o,*/*/*.o,*/*/*/*.o,$(LIB_FILE),perf-archive}
-	$(RM) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) perf$X
+	$(RM) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) perf
 	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
 	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo $(OUTPUT)common-cmds.h TAGS tags cscope*
 	$(RM) -r $(PERF_TARNAME) .doc-tmp-dir
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.h b/tools/perf/util/util.h
index e833f26f3bf..fc784284ac8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.h
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@
 #include <sys/poll.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
-#ifndef NO_SYS_SELECT_H
 #include <sys/select.h>
-#endif
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <netinet/tcp.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
@@ -83,10 +81,6 @@
 #include "types.h"
 #include <sys/ttydefaults.h>
 
-#ifndef NO_ICONV
-#include <iconv.h>
-#endif
-
 extern const char *graph_line;
 extern const char *graph_dotted_line;
 extern char buildid_dir[];
@@ -236,26 +230,6 @@ static inline int sane_case(int x, int high)
 	return x;
 }
 
-#ifndef DIR_HAS_BSD_GROUP_SEMANTICS
-# define FORCE_DIR_SET_GID S_ISGID
-#else
-# define FORCE_DIR_SET_GID 0
-#endif
-
-#ifdef NO_NSEC
-#undef USE_NSEC
-#define ST_CTIME_NSEC(st) 0
-#define ST_MTIME_NSEC(st) 0
-#else
-#ifdef USE_ST_TIMESPEC
-#define ST_CTIME_NSEC(st) ((unsigned int)((st).st_ctimespec.tv_nsec))
-#define ST_MTIME_NSEC(st) ((unsigned int)((st).st_mtimespec.tv_nsec))
-#else
-#define ST_CTIME_NSEC(st) ((unsigned int)((st).st_ctim.tv_nsec))
-#define ST_MTIME_NSEC(st) ((unsigned int)((st).st_mtim.tv_nsec))
-#endif
-#endif
-
 int mkdir_p(char *path, mode_t mode);
 int copyfile(const char *from, const char *to);