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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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[3be4d97] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-m4" xreflabel="M4">
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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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[5888299] | 12 | <para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
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| 13 |
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[673b0d8] | 14 | <screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
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| 15 | &diskspace; 3.0 MB</screen>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>M4 installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
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| 18 | Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed.</para>
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[3554fa3a] | 19 |
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <sect2>
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| 23 | <title>Installation of M4</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 32 |
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[673b0d8] | 33 | <para>To test the results, issue:
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[8a5f906] | 34 | <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 35 |
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| 36 | <para>And install the package:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 41 |
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[5888299] | 42 |
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[673b0d8] | 43 | <sect2 id="contents-m4"><title>Contents of M4</title>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <para><emphasis>Installed program</emphasis>: m4</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | </sect2>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <sect2><title>Short description</title>
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[6370fa6] | 50 |
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[673b0d8] | 51 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4"><primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary></indexterm>
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| 52 | <para id="m4"><command>m4</command> copies the given files
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| 53 | while expanding the macros that they contain. These macros are either built-in
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| 54 | or user-defined and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro
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| 55 | expansion, m4 has built-in functions for including named files, running Unix
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| 56 | commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways,
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| 57 | recursion, and so on. The m4 program can be used either as a front-end to a
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| 58 | compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | </sect2>
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| 61 |
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| 62 |
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| 63 |
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| 64 | </sect1>
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