GNU m4Current uses of m4 |
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The MTA sendmail uses m4 for generating configuration files. GNU Autoconf uses m4 to generate "configure" scripts that are used for configuring GNU software for a particular platform. Htm4l is a set of macros for generating HTML. Html4 is written by Terry Jones (terry@cliffs.ucsd.edu). See http://cliffs.ucsd.edu/terry/htm4l/htm4l/main.html for details. Various programs uses m4 to preprocess configuration files for example the X11 window manager fvwm. There is an article in the Linux Gazette about writing HTML with GNU m4 written by Bob Hepple . More recent versions are kept at Bob's home site. The macros are used to maintain a large commercial site at http://www.finder.com.au. Other examples of GNU m4 generated HTML pages written by Erik Max Francis can be found at the sites http://www.alcyone.com/max/ http://www.catcam.com/ http://www.crank.net/ and http://www.pollywannacracka.com/. |