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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[a001133] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-m4" xreflabel="M4" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>M4-&m4-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="m4.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4"><primary sortas="a-M4">M4</primary></indexterm>
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[6370fa6] | 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[5888299] | 13 | <para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
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| 14 |
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[a001133] | 15 | <segmentedlist>
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| 16 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>3.0 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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| 19 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 20 |
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[a001133] | 21 | <segmentedlist>
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| 22 | <segtitle>M4 installation depends on</segtitle>
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| 23 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
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| 24 | Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
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| 25 | </segmentedlist>
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| 26 | </sect2>
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[3554fa3a] | 27 |
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[a001133] | 28 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 29 | <title>Installation of M4</title>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 38 |
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[673b0d8] | 39 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 40 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 41 |
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| 42 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 47 |
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[5888299] | 48 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 49 | <sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content"><title>Contents of M4</title>
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[673b0d8] | 50 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 51 | <segmentedlist>
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| 52 | <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
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| 53 | <seglistitem><seg>m4</seg></seglistitem>
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| 54 | </segmentedlist>
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[673b0d8] | 55 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 56 | <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
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[6370fa6] | 57 |
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[b8a819f] | 58 | <varlistentry id="m4">
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| 59 | <term><command>m4</command></term>
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[c6cb3aa] | 60 | <listitem>
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[673b0d8] | 61 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4"><primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary></indexterm>
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[c6cb3aa] | 62 | <para>copies the given files
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[673b0d8] | 63 | while expanding the macros that they contain. These macros are either built-in
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| 64 | or user-defined and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro
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| 65 | expansion, m4 has built-in functions for including named files, running Unix
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| 66 | commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways,
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| 67 | recursion, and so on. The m4 program can be used either as a front-end to a
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| 68 | compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.</para>
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[c6cb3aa] | 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | </varlistentry>
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| 71 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 72 |
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| 73 | </sect2>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | </sect1>
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