diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4-1.4.9.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/m4/m4-1.4.9.inc
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+require m4.inc
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe\
+	file://examples/COPYING;md5=1d49bd61dc590f014cae7173b43e3e5c"
+
+PR = "r2"
+SRC_URI += "file://fix_for_circular_dependency.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "1ba8e147aff5e79bd2bfb983d86b53d5"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "815ce53853fbf6493617f467389b799208b1ec98296b95be44a683f8bcfd7c47"
+