diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/meta
index da60afc147..c0c44d5e8d 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/meta
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 PKG_NAME="m4"
-PKG_VERSION="1.4.15"
+PKG_VERSION="1.4.16"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/patches/m4-1.4.15-include_stat.h-0.1.patch b/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/patches/m4-1.4.15-include_stat.h-0.1.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f18edb95f0..0000000000
--- a/packages/toolchain/devel/autotools/m4/patches/m4-1.4.15-include_stat.h-0.1.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-diff -Naur m4-1.4.14/src/path.c m4-1.4.14.patch/src/path.c
---- m4-1.4.14/src/path.c	2010-01-28 14:01:57.000000000 +0100
-+++ m4-1.4.14.patch/src/path.c	2010-06-05 19:29:48.805582949 +0200
-@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
-    and "sinclude".  */
- 
- #include "m4.h"
-+#include <sys/stat.h>
- 
- struct includes
- {