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r668@server (orig r666): manuel | 2005-11-08 15:25:13 -0800
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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  <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6  %general-entities;
7  %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-m4" role="wrap">
11  <?dbhtml filename="m4.html"?>
12
13  <title>M4-&m4-version;</title>
14
15  <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4">
16    <primary sortas="a-M4">M4</primary>
17  </indexterm>
18
19  <sect2 role="package">
20    <title/>
21
22    <para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
23
24    <segmentedlist>
25      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
26
27      <seglistitem>
28        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
29        Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, and Sed</seg>
30      </seglistitem>
31    </segmentedlist>
32
33  </sect2>
34
35  <sect2 role="installation">
36    <title>Installation of M4</title>
37
38    <para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
39
40<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para>Compile the package:</para>
43
44<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para>To test the results, issue:
47    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
48
49    <para>Install the package:</para>
50
51<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
52
53  </sect2>
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>
80          program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a
81          macro processor 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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