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