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+SUMMARY = "A GNU tool for automatically generating Makefiles"
+DESCRIPTION = "Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in' files compliant with the GNU Coding \
+Standards. Automake requires the use of Autoconf."
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/"
+SECTION = "devel"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/automake/automake-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+inherit autotools texinfo
+
+do_configure() {
+	oe_runconf
+}
+
+export AUTOMAKE = "${@bb.utils.which('automake', d.getVar('PATH', True))}"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/automake* ${datadir}/aclocal*"