m4
Port variant standard
Summary GNU implementation of the Unix macro processor
Package version 1.4.19
Homepage https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html
Keywords devel
Maintainer nobody
License GPLv3+
Other variants noprefix
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Last modified 07 FEB 2023, 00:14:35 UTC
Port created 26 MAR 2017, 07:07:34 UTC
Subpackage Descriptions
complete This is the m4-standard metapackage. It pulls in all subpackages of m4-standard.
primary GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU M4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. GNU M4 is a macro processor in the sense that it copies its input to the output expanding macros as it goes. Macros are either builtin or user-defined and can take any number of arguments. Besides just doing macro expansion, m4 has builtin 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. One of the biggest users of GNU M4 is the GNU Autoconf project.
examples This is the examples subpackage of the m4-standard port.
Configuration Switches (platform-specific settings discarded)
Package Dependencies by Type
Build (only) libsigsegv:static:standard
Runtime (only) indexinfo:single:standard (primary subpackage)
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main mirror://GNU/m4
Distribution File Information
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Ports that require m4:standard
autoconf213:standard Automatic config tool for *nix (legacy version)
autoconf:standard Unix platform automatic configuration tool
bison:standard Yacc-compatible parser generator from FSF
flex:ravensys Fast lexical analyzer generator for raven sysroot
flex:standard Fast lexical analyzer generator
scons:standard Alternative build tool competing with make