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Linux Applications on pSeries
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Linux Applications on pSeries

by Dr. Jan-Rainer Lahmann, Luis Ferreira, Janethe Co, Bjorn Roden
February 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 36m
English
IBM Redbooks
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6.4.8 m4
The M4 package provides the implementation of the traditional UNIX macro
processor. The m4 command is useful for writing text files that can be logically
parsed, and is used by many programs as part of their build processes. The m4
command has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands,
doing arithmetic, etc. The autoconf program needs m4 for generating configure
scripts, but not for running configure scripts.
Synopsis
m4 [OPTION...] [MACRO-DEFINITIONS...] [INPUT-FILE...]
The following list describes options for the m4 command:
--version Print the version number of the program on
standard output.
--help Print a help summary on standard output.
-G, --traditional Suppress all the exten ...
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