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diff --git a/gnu/packages/m4.scm b/gnu/packages/m4.scm index 17ca7c8440..f341b246a2 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/m4.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/m4.scm @@ -59,18 +59,10 @@ ,(search-patch "m4-readlink-EINVAL.patch")))) (synopsis "Macro processor") (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.") + "GNU M4 is an implementation of the M4 macro language, which features +some extensions over other implementations. It is used as a macro processor, +which means it processes text, expanding macros as it encounters them. It +also has some built-in functionns, for example to run shell commands or to do +arithmetic.") (license gpl3+) (home-page "http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/"))) |