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diff --git a/chapter06/m4.xml b/chapter06/m4.xml index f81e5c583..ba350ab94 100644 --- a/chapter06/m4.xml +++ b/chapter06/m4.xml @@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> -<sect1 id="ch-system-m4" xreflabel="M4" role="wrap"> +<sect1 id="ch-system-m4" role="wrap"> <title>M4-&m4-version;</title> <?dbhtml filename="m4.html"?> <indexterm zone="ch-system-m4"><primary sortas="a-M4">M4</primary></indexterm> <sect2 role="package"><title/> +<para>The M4 package contains a macro processor.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> @@ -17,6 +18,11 @@ <seglistitem><seg>0.1 SBU</seg><seg>3.0 MB</seg></seglistitem> </segmentedlist> +<segmentedlist> +<segtitle>M4 installation depends on</segtitle> +<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, +Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, and Sed</seg></seglistitem> +</segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> @@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ <para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para> -<para>And install the package:</para> +<para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> @@ -42,8 +48,31 @@ <sect2 id="contents-m4" role="content"><title>Contents of M4</title> -<para>See testing</para> +<segmentedlist> +<segtitle>Installed program</segtitle> +<seglistitem><seg>m4</seg></seglistitem> +</segmentedlist> + +<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> +<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> + +<varlistentry id="m4"> +<term><command>m4</command></term> +<listitem> +<para>copies the given files while expanding the macros that they +contain. These macros are either built-in or user-defined and can take +any number of arguments. Besides performing macro expansion, +<command>m4</command> has +built-in functions for including named files, running Unix commands, +performing integer arithmetic, manipulating text, recursion, etc. The +<command>m4</command> program can be used either as a front-end to a compiler or as a +macro processor in its own right.</para> +<indexterm zone="ch-system-m4 m4"><primary sortas="b-m4">m4</primary></indexterm> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> +</variablelist> </sect2> </sect1> + |