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- m4 GNU M4
- 1.4.21,1 devel
 =662      1.4.21,1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
- Port Added: unknown
- Last Update: 2026-03-09 18:18:15
- Commit Hash: 23c5b87
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- License: GPLv3
- WWW:
- https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html
- Description:
- 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.
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- Manual pages:
-
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
- no SUBR information found for this port
- Dependency lines:
-
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/devel/m4/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install devel/m4
- pkg install m4
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: m4
- Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
- distinfo:
- TIMESTAMP = 1771421424
SHA256 (m4-1.4.21.tar.xz) = f25c6ab51548a73a75558742fb031e0625d6485fe5f9155949d6486a2408ab66
SIZE (m4-1.4.21.tar.xz) = 2080016
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Build dependencies:
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- makeinfo : print/texinfo
- gettext-runtime>=0.26 : devel/gettext-runtime
- gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
- Runtime dependencies:
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- indexinfo : print/indexinfo
- Library dependencies:
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- libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
- This port is required by:
- for Build
-
- cad/pcb
- databases/mongodb70
- databases/mongodb80
- devel/autoconf
- devel/autoconf2.13
- devel/autoconf2.69
- devel/bison
-
Deleted ports which required this port:
- for Run
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- cad/pcb
- devel/autoconf
- devel/autoconf2.13
- devel/autoconf2.69
- devel/bison
- devel/libtool
- devel/z88dk
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Deleted ports which required this port:
- * - deleted ports are only shown under the This port is required by section. It was harder to do for the Required section. Perhaps later...
Configuration Options:- ===> The following configuration options are available for m4-1.4.21,1:
EXAMPLES=on: Build and/or install examples
INFO=on: Build and/or install GNU info pages
LIBSIGSEGV=off: Use alternative page fault handler (GNU libsigsegv)
NLS=on: Native Language Support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
- Options name:
- devel_m4
- USES:
- cpe iconv tar:xz makeinfo gettext
- FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
- Master Sites:
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