source: final-system/common/m4.xml @ bf884b8

Last change on this file since bf884b8 was bf884b8, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r1104@server (orig r1102): chris | 2006-01-28 10:00:19 -0800
Remove perl from m4's dependency list

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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>&dependencies;</segtitle>
24
25      <seglistitem>
26        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC,
27        Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg>
28      </seglistitem>
29    </segmentedlist>
30
31  </sect2>
32
33  <sect2 role="installation">
34    <title>Installation of M4</title>
35
36    <para os="a">Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
37
38<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
39
40    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
41
42<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
43
44    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
45    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
46
47    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
48
49<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
50
51  </sect2>
52
53  <sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content">
54    <title>Contents of M4</title>
55
56    <segmentedlist>
57      <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
58
59      <seglistitem>
60        <seg>m4</seg>
61      </seglistitem>
62    </segmentedlist>
63
64    <variablelist>
65      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
66      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
67      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
68
69      <varlistentry id="m4">
70        <term><command>m4</command></term>
71        <listitem>
72          <para>copies the given files while expanding the macros that they
73          contain. These macros are either built-in or user-defined and can
74          take any number of arguments. Besides performing macro expansion,
75          <command>m4</command> has built-in functions for including named
76          files, running Unix commands, performing integer arithmetic,
77          manipulating text, recursion, etc. The <command>m4</command>
78          program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a
79          macro processor in its own right.</para>
80          <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4">
81            <primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary>
82          </indexterm>
83        </listitem>
84      </varlistentry>
85
86    </variablelist>
87
88  </sect2>
89
90</sect1>
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