Installation depends
on:Bash, Binutils,
Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl,
and Sed
6.24.1. Installation of M4
Prepare M4 for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr
Compile the package:
make
To test the results, issue: make
check.
Install the package:
make install
6.24.2. Contents of M4
Installed
program:m4
Short Descriptions
m4
copies the given files while expanding the macros that
they contain. These macros are either built-in or
user-defined and can take any number of arguments.
Besides performing macro expansion, m4 has built-in functions for
including named files, running Unix commands, performing
integer arithmetic, manipulating text, recursion, etc.
The m4
program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler
or as a macro processor in its own right.