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+SUMMARY = "Traditional Unix macro processor"
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU m4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor.  It is mostly SVR4 \
+compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). \
+GNU M4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc."
+
+inherit autotools texinfo
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE += "'infodir=${infodir}'"
+LDFLAGS_prepend_libc-uclibc = " -lrt "
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/m4/m4-${PV}.tar.gz"