Installing M4-1.4

Estimated build time:           1 minute
Estimated required disk space:  3 MB

Installation of M4

Install M4 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents of m4-1.4

Descriptions

m4

M4 is a macro processor. It copies input to output expanding macros as it goes. Macros are either built-in or user-defined and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion m4 has built-in functions for including named files, running UNIX commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways, recursion, etc. M4 can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.

Dependencies

M4-1.4 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: ar, as, ld
fileutils: chmod, cp, mv, rm
make: make
gcc: cc
grep: egrep, grep
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, date
textutils: cat, tr