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8 <sect1 id="ch-system-m4" role="wrap">
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12 <productname>m4</productname>
13 <productnumber>&m4-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&m4-url;</address>
17 <title>M4-&m4-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4">
20 <primary sortas="a-M4">M4</primary>
23 <sect2 role="package">
26 <para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para>
29 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
30 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
33 <seg>&m4-ch6-sbu;</seg>
34 <seg>&m4-ch6-du;</seg>
40 <sect2 role="installation">
41 <title>Installation of M4</title>
43 <para>Prepare M4 for compilation:</para>
45 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
47 <para>Compile the package:</para>
49 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
51 <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
53 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
55 <para>The test-update-copyright.sh failure can safely be ignored.</para>
57 <para>Install the package:</para>
59 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
64 <sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content">
65 <title>Contents of M4</title>
68 <segtitle>Installed program</segtitle>
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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78 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
80 <varlistentry id="m4">
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82 <term><command>m4 </command></term>
84 <para>copies the given files while expanding the macros that they
85 contain [These macros are either built-in or user-defined and can
86 take any number of arguments. Besides performing macro expansion,
87 <command>m4</command> has built-in functions for including named
88 files, running Unix commands, performing integer arithmetic,
89 manipulating text, recursion, etc. The <command>m4</command> program
90 can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor
91 in its own right.]</para>
92 <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4">
93 <primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary>