[ITP] m4

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Wed Nov 17 14:13:00 GMT 2004


It appears, according to 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-09/msg00287.html, that m4 has no 
a maintainer.  It was last uploaded 2 years ago, and 1.4.2 has since been 
released with a security fix that I would like to see.  So, I am offering to 
become the maintainer.

I have plans to roll a 1.4.2a from CVS, which promises a 20% speedup of m4 
processing during its most typical use (autoconf), but want to make sure I am 
accepted as a maintainer before I spend time doing that.

sdesc: "GNU implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor."
ldesc: "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."
category: Interpreters
requires: cygwin _update-info-dir

http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.2-1.setup.hint
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.2-1.tar.bz2
http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/m4-1.4.2-1-src.tar.bz2

-- 
Someday, I might put a cute statement here.

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net



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