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+SUMMARY = "A GNU tool that procude shell scripts to automatically configure software"
+DESCRIPTION = "Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically \ 
+configure software source code packages. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template \
+file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls."
+LICENSE = "GPLv3"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/"
+SECTION = "devel"
+DEPENDS += "m4-native"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "m4-native gnu-config-native"
+DEPENDS_class-nativesdk = "nativesdk-m4 nativesdk-gnu-config"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "m4 gnu-config \
+		  perl \
+		  perl-module-carp \
+		  perl-module-constant \
+		  perl-module-errno \
+		  perl-module-exporter \
+		  perl-module-file-basename \
+		  perl-module-file-compare \
+		  perl-module-file-copy \
+		  perl-module-file-glob \
+		  perl-module-file-path \
+		  perl-module-file-stat \
+		  perl-module-getopt-long \
+		  perl-module-io-file \
+		  perl-module-posix \
+		  perl-module-data-dumper \
+		 "
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = "m4-native gnu-config-native"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/autoconf/autoconf-${PV}.tar.gz \
+	   file://program_prefix.patch"
+
+inherit autotools texinfo
+
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL=${USRBINPATH}/perl"
+
+do_configure() {
+	oe_runconf
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+    rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/emacs
+}