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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/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 </sect2>
23
24 <sect2 role="installation">
25 <title>Installation of M4</title>
26
27 <para os="a">Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
28
29<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
30
31 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
32
33<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
34
35 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
36 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
37
38 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
39
40<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
41
42 </sect2>
43
44 <sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content">
45 <title>Contents of M4</title>
46
47 <segmentedlist>
48 <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
49
50 <seglistitem>
51 <seg>m4</seg>
52 </seglistitem>
53 </segmentedlist>
54
55 <variablelist>
56 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
57 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
58 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
59
60 <varlistentry id="m4">
61 <!-- Don't remove the extra space, it prevet a FOP warning. -->
62 <term><command>m4 </command></term>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>copies the given files while expanding the macros that they
65 contain. These macros are either built-in or user-defined and can
66 take any number of arguments. Besides performing macro expansion,
67 <command>m4</command> has built-in functions for including named
68 files, running Unix commands, performing integer arithmetic,
69 manipulating text, recursion, etc. The <command>m4</command>
70 program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a
71 macro processor in its own right.</para>
72 <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4">
73 <primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary>
74 </indexterm>
75 </listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77
78 </variablelist>
79
80 </sect2>
81
82</sect1>
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