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Last change on this file since f8a96cf was f8a96cf, checked in by Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>, 18 years ago

Upgrade to m4-1.4.6. Fixes #1868.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-m4" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="m4.html"?>
10
11 <title>M4-&m4-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4">
14 <primary sortas="a-M4">M4</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
21
22 <segmentedlist>
23 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
24 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
25
26 <seglistitem>
27 <seg>&m4-ch6-sbu;</seg>
28 <seg>&m4-ch6-du;</seg>
29 </seglistitem>
30 </segmentedlist>
31
32 </sect2>
33
34 <sect2 role="installation">
35 <title>Installation of M4</title>
36
37 <para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
38
39<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
40
41 <para>Compile the package:</para>
42
43<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para>To test the results, issue:
46 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
47
48 <para>Install the package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
51
52 </sect2>
53
54
55 <sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content">
56 <title>Contents of M4</title>
57
58 <segmentedlist>
59 <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
60
61 <seglistitem>
62 <seg>m4</seg>
63 </seglistitem>
64 </segmentedlist>
65
66 <variablelist>
67 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
68 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
69 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
70
71 <varlistentry id="m4">
72 <term><command>m4</command></term>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>copies the given files while expanding the macros that they
75 contain. These macros are either built-in or user-defined and can
76 take any number of arguments. Besides performing macro expansion,
77 <command>m4</command> has built-in functions for including named
78 files, running Unix commands, performing integer arithmetic,
79 manipulating text, recursion, etc. The <command>m4</command> program
80 can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor
81 in its own right.</para>
82 <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4">
83 <primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary>
84 </indexterm>
85 </listitem>
86 </varlistentry>
87
88 </variablelist>
89
90 </sect2>
91
92</sect1>
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