lfs-book/appendixa/m4-shortdesc.xml

<sect2><title>Contents of M4</title>

<para>(Last checked against version &m4-contversion;.)</para>

<para>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.</para>

<para>M4 installs the following:</para>

<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
<para>m4</para></sect3>

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