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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-system-m4" role="wrap">
7<title>M4-&m4-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="m4.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-system-m4"><primary sortas="a-M4">M4</primary></indexterm>
11
12<sect2 role="package"><title/>
13<para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
14
15<segmentedlist>
16<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
17<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
18<seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>3.0 MB</seg></seglistitem>
19</segmentedlist>
20
21<segmentedlist>
22<segtitle>M4 installation depends on</segtitle>
23<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
24Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
25</segmentedlist>
26</sect2>
27
28<sect2 role="installation">
29<title>Installation of M4</title>
30
31<para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
32
33<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
34
35<para>Compile the package:</para>
36
37<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
38
39<para>To test the results, issue:
40<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
41
42<para>Install the package:</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
45
46</sect2>
47
48
49<sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content"><title>Contents of M4</title>
50
51<segmentedlist>
52<segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
53<seglistitem><seg>m4</seg></seglistitem>
54</segmentedlist>
55
56<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
57<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
58
59<varlistentry id="m4">
60<term><command>m4</command></term>
61<listitem>
62<para>copies the given files while expanding the macros that they
63contain. These macros are either built-in or user-defined and can take
64any number of arguments. Besides performing macro expansion,
65<command>m4</command> has
66built-in functions for including named files, running Unix commands,
67performing integer arithmetic, manipulating text, recursion, etc. The
68<command>m4</command> program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a
69macro processor in its own right.</para>
70<indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4"><primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary></indexterm>
71</listitem>
72</varlistentry>
73</variablelist>
74
75</sect2>
76
77</sect1>
78
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