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