diff --git a/core/m4/PKGBUILD b/core/m4/PKGBUILD
deleted file mode 100644
index d83ac7ed4..000000000
--- a/core/m4/PKGBUILD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-# $Id: PKGBUILD 142067 2011-11-04 23:35:59Z allan $
-# Maintainer: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
-# Contributor: Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>
-
-# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
-#  - rebuild because goddamn upstream built theirs statically linked, didn't trigger rebuild
-#    for libsigsegv.. STOP DOING THIS IF IT'S NOT IN THE PKGBUILD
-
-plugrel=1
-
-pkgname=m4
-pkgver=1.4.16
-pkgrel=2.1
-pkgdesc="The GNU macro processor"
-arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
-url="http://www.gnu.org/software/m4"
-license=('GPL3')
-groups=('base-devel')
-depends=('glibc' 'bash')
-install=m4.install
-source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz{,.sig}
-        m4-1.4.16-readlink-einval.patch)
-md5sums=('7548ec061a1ba993790159764f522d0e'
-         'eebe5c94e74e7551e2e30c5844f1b653'
-         'cea138fa9b568d06e46269611cec8dd0')
-
-build() {
-  cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver
-  patch -Np1 -i $srcdir/m4-1.4.16-readlink-einval.patch
-  ./configure --prefix=/usr
-  make
-}
-
-check() {
-  cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver
-  make check
-}
-
-package() {
-  cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver
-  make prefix=${pkgdir}/usr install
-}
diff --git a/core/m4/m4-1.4.16-readlink-einval.patch b/core/m4/m4-1.4.16-readlink-einval.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a987510d..000000000
--- a/core/m4/m4-1.4.16-readlink-einval.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-diff -up m4-1.4.16/tests/test-readlink.h.orig m4-1.4.16/tests/test-readlink.h
---- m4-1.4.16/tests/test-readlink.h.orig	2011-09-19 12:44:58.745546826 +0200
-+++ m4-1.4.16/tests/test-readlink.h	2011-09-19 12:46:00.079548410 +0200
-@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ test_readlink (ssize_t (*func) (char con
-   ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
-   errno = 0;
-   ASSERT (func ("", buf, sizeof buf) == -1);
--  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT);
-+  ASSERT (errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL);
-   errno = 0;
-   ASSERT (func (".", buf, sizeof buf) == -1);
-   ASSERT (errno == EINVAL);
diff --git a/core/m4/m4.install b/core/m4/m4.install
deleted file mode 100644
index be4138170..000000000
--- a/core/m4/m4.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-infodir=usr/share/info
-filelist=(m4.info m4.info-1 m4.info-2)
-
-post_install() {
-  [ -x usr/bin/install-info ] || return 0
-  for file in ${filelist[@]}; do
-    install-info $infodir/$file.gz $infodir/dir 2> /dev/null
-  done
-}
-
-post_upgrade() {
-  post_install $1
-}
-
-pre_remove() {
-  [ -x usr/bin/install-info ] || return 0
-  for file in ${filelist[@]}; do
-    install-info --delete $infodir/$file.gz $infodir/dir 2> /dev/null
-  done
-}