Installing M4-1.4

Estimated build time:           0.1 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  3 MB

Contents of M4

(Last checked against version 1.4.)

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. The m4 program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a macro processor in its own right.

M4 installs the following:

M4 Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 1.4.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: cat, chmod, cp, date, echo, hostname, install, mv, rm, tr
Diffutils: cmp
GCC: cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed

Installation of M4

Prepare M4 for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

This package has a testsuite available which can perform a number of checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the following command will do so:

make check

And install the package:

make install