M4

[Ron Brown_2]

Is m4 generally installed by default under HP-UX 11.00? I find the binary in /usr/bin/m4 and m4 directories in a plethora of places, but have been unable to locate any configuration files. What are those and where should they reside? man m4 did not provide much insight.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

M4 does not have config files all its controls are from the command line.

What are you trying to achieve?

Paula

[Francisco J. Soler · Accepted solution]

Hi,

m4 is a preprocessor for many programs, so there are some programs that use it for configuration purpuoses, to find this configuration files you can search through the file system with:

find / -name "*m4" -print

a good place to find some files is: /usr/newconfig/etc/mail (at least in 10.20)

Regards.
Frank.

[Ron Brown_2]

Paula,

This is for sendmail spam processing.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
If I remember correctly there is a sendmail m4 config file,

I am not on a server right now so do a search for *m4.

HTH

Paula

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Ron

http://www.sendmail.org/

and search for M4


Paula

[Elena Leontieva]

Since m4 macro package is used to configure sendmail ( sendmail.cf), you may want to check the sendmail Nutshell book.

[Donny Jekels]

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). `m4' also has built-in functions for including files,
running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. Autoconf needs GNU
`m4' for generating `configure' scripts, but not for running them.
GNU `m4' has been originally written by Rene' Seindal, from Denmark.
This release is to be considered as stable.
If GNU `m4' is meant to serve GNU `autoconf', beware that `m4'
should be fully installed *prior to* configuring `autoconf' itself.
In the subdirectory `examples' you will find various m4 files, ranging
from trivial test files to rather advanced macros. If you intend to
use m4 seriously, you might find useful material down there.
See file `BACKLOG' for a summary of pending mail and articles.
See file `COPYING' for copying conditions.
See file `INSTALL' for compilation and installation instructions.
See file `NEWS' for a list of major changes in the current release.
See file `THANKS' for a list of contributors.
By using `./configure --enable-changeword', you get an experimental
feature which allows for changing the syntax of what is a "word" in
`m4'. This might go away, so don't count on it yet.
Send bug reports to `bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu'. A bug report is
an adequate description of the problem: your input, what you expected,
what you got, and why this is wrong. Diffs are welcome, but they only
describe a solution, from which the problem might be uneasy to infer.