diff --git a/templates/m4.tmpl b/templates/m4.tmpl
index b4deaf903a0..5b0d1cad099 100644
--- a/templates/m4.tmpl
+++ b/templates/m4.tmpl
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@ long_desc="
  shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. Autoconf needs GNU m4 for
  generating configure scripts, but not for running them."
 
-ignore_files="charset.alias"
 run_depends="glibc-2.8"