scons: remove dead leading underscore check

e56c3d8 (2008) added it but 8e37348 (2010) removed its only use.

SConstruct

@@ -819,32 +819,6 @@ scanners.append(CPPScanner("SwigScan", [ ".i" ], "CPPPATH", swig_inc_re))
 # replace the scanners list that has what we want
 main['SCANNERS'] = scanners
 
-# Add a custom Check function to the Configure context so that we can
-# figure out if the compiler adds leading underscores to global
-# variables.  This is needed for the autogenerated asm files that we
-# use for embedding the python code.
-def CheckLeading(context):
-    context.Message("Checking for leading underscore in global variables...")
-    # 1) Define a global variable called x from asm so the C compiler
-    #    won't change the symbol at all.
-    # 2) Declare that variable.
-    # 3) Use the variable
-    #
-    # If the compiler prepends an underscore, this will successfully
-    # link because the external symbol 'x' will be called '_x' which
-    # was defined by the asm statement.  If the compiler does not
-    # prepend an underscore, this will not successfully link because
-    # '_x' will have been defined by assembly, while the C portion of
-    # the code will be trying to use 'x'
-    ret = context.TryLink('''
-        asm(".globl _x; _x: .byte 0");
-        extern int x;
-        int main() { return x; }
-        ''', extension=".c")
-    context.env.Append(LEADING_UNDERSCORE=ret)
-    context.Result(ret)
-    return ret
-
 # Add a custom Check function to test for structure members.
 def CheckMember(context, include, decl, member, include_quotes="<>"):
     context.Message("Checking for member %s in %s..." %
@@ -871,14 +845,9 @@ conf = Configure(main,
                  conf_dir = joinpath(build_root, '.scons_config'),
                  log_file = joinpath(build_root, 'scons_config.log'),
                  custom_tests = {
-        'CheckLeading' : CheckLeading,
         'CheckMember' : CheckMember,
         })
 
-# Check for leading underscores.  Don't really need to worry either
-# way so don't need to check the return code.
-conf.CheckLeading()
-
 # Check if we should compile a 64 bit binary on Mac OS X/Darwin
 try:
     import platform