BOOK/chapter06/m4.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-m4" xreflabel="M4">
   2 <title>Installing M4-&m4-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="m4.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
   6
   7 <screen>&buildtime; &m4-time;
   8 &diskspace; &m4-compsize;</screen>
   9
  10 &aa-m4-down;
  11 &aa-m4-dep;
  12
  13 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  14
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>Installation of M4</title>
  17
  18 <para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
  19
  20 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  21
  22 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  23
  24 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  25
  26 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  27 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  28 following command will do so:</para>
  29
  30 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  31
  32 <para>And install the package:</para>
  33
  34 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  35
  36 </sect2>
  37
  38 &aa-m4-shortdesc;
  39 &aa-m4-desc;
  40
  41 </sect1>
  42