Also updated configure (in addition to configure.in) with the

change to remove the "m4" dependency.

scripts/configure

@@ -668,7 +668,6 @@ XMKMF
 HAVE_PYTHON3
 EGREP
 GREP
-M4
 RANLIB
 INSTALL_DATA
 INSTALL_SCRIPT
@@ -3702,56 +3701,6 @@ else
 fi
 
 
-for ac_prog in gm4 gnum4 m4
-do
-  # Extract the first word of "$ac_prog", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy $ac_prog; ac_word=$2
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_path_M4+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  case $M4 in
-  [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
-  ac_cv_path_M4="$M4" # Let the user override the test with a path.
-  ;;
-  *)
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
-    ac_cv_path_M4="$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"
-    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-    break 2
-  fi
-done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-
-  ;;
-esac
-fi
-M4=$ac_cv_path_M4
-if test -n "$M4"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $M4" >&5
-$as_echo "$M4" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-
-  test -n "$M4" && break
-done
-test -n "$M4" || M4="no"
-
-if test x$M4 = xno; then
-  as_fn_error $? "M4 is required" "$LINENO" 5
-fi
-
 
 if test "$CPP" = "$CC -E" ; then
    CPP="$CPP -x c"