./devel/m4, GNU version of UNIX m4 macro language processor

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 1.4.19nb1, Package name: m4-1.4.19nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

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 builtin 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' was originally written by Rene Seindal, with subsequent
changes by Franc,ois Pinard and other volunteers on the Internet. All
names and email addresses can be found in the file `THANKS' from the
GNU `m4' distribution.

This is release 1.4. It is now to be considered stable, future
releases are only meant to fix bugs, increase speed, or improve
documentation. However...

An experimental feature, which would improve `m4' usefulness, allows
for changing the syntax for what is a "word" in `m4'. You should use:
./configure --enable-changeword

if you want this feature compiled in. The current implementation slows
down `m4' considerably and is hardly acceptable. So, it might go away,
do not count on it yet.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

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   2024-03-29 01:37:19 by Jonathan Schleifer | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
devel/m4: Fix build on QNX
   2022-05-24 16:43:04 by Hauke Fath | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
Use older register names on MacOS X 10.4 "Tiger", taken from MacPorts
   2021-11-15 14:20:04 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3) 
Log message:
m4: fix building on sparcv8

from John D. Baker in PR pkg/56498
   2021-10-26 12:20:11 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3016) 
Log message:
archivers: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes

Could not be committed due to merge conflict:
devel/py-traitlets/distinfo

The following distfiles were unfetchable (note: some may be only fetched
conditionally):

./devel/pvs/distinfo pvs-3.2-solaris.tgz
./devel/eclipse/distinfo eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.0.1.zip
   2021-10-07 15:44:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (3017) 
Log message:
devel: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2021-06-29 07:19:47 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) 
Log message:
m4: remove vax patch that is not needed anymore

jklos@ ok
   2021-06-29 01:48:25 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) 
Log message:
m4: be explicit about --disable-nls
   2021-06-28 20:30:57 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (15) | Package removed
Log message:
m4: update to 1.4.19.

* Noteworthy changes in release 1.4.19 (2021-05-28) [stable]

** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib, including
   the ability to perform stack overflow detection on more platforms
   without linking to GNU libsigsegv.

* Noteworthy changes in release 1.4.18d (2021-05-11) [beta]

** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.

* Noteworthy changes in release 1.4.18b (2021-05-07) [beta]

** The symbol hash table now defaults to 65537 buckets instead of 509, as
   modern systems have enough memory to benefit from fewer hash collisions
   by default.

** Introduce the use of gettext, with the immediate benefit of nicer
   UTF-8 author names.  Over time, more translations of program messages
   will become available.

** A number of portability improvements inherited from gnulib.