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-#
-# Copyright:: Chef Software, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-name "m4"
-default_version "1.4.19"
-
-license "GPL-3.0"
-license_file "COPYING"
-skip_transitive_dependency_licensing true
-
-version("1.4.19") { source sha256: "3be4a26d825ffdfda52a56fc43246456989a3630093cced3fbddf4771ee58a70" }
-
-ship_source_offer true
-
-source url: "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-#{version}.tar.gz"
-
-relative_path "m4-#{version}"
-
-build do
-  env = with_standard_compiler_flags(with_embedded_path)
-
-  configure_options = [
-    "--disable-nls",
-  ]
-  configure(*configure_options, env: env)
-
-  make "-j #{workers}", env: env
-  make "-j #{workers} install", env: env
-end