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Installer m4 avec Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de m4 pour les workflows d'agents IA.

Commande d'installationNotes de sécurité

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install m4

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install m4

MacPorts ports tree · devel/m4/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkvérifié · 92%
sudo apk add m4

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · m4 · Source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptvérifié · 92%
sudo apt install m4

Debian stable package indexes · m4 · Source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%
sudo dnf install m4

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · m4 · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#m4

nixpkgs package indexes · m4 · Source: raw.githubusercontent.com

Arch Linux pacmanvérifié · 92%
sudo pacman -S m4

Arch Linux sync databases · m4 · Source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zyppervérifié · 92%
sudo zypper install m4

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · m4 · Source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopvérifié · 92%
scoop install main/m4

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/m4.json · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Macro processing language

Commandes et alias

  • m4

historique

Historique du projet et usages

GNU M4 is the GNU implementation of the traditional Unix `m4` macro processor. It expands built-in and user-defined macros while copying input to output and is used both directly and as infrastructure for other build tools.

Historique du projet

The m4 lineage is older than GNU: the GNU manual traces macro-language ideas to 1950s and 1960s work by Alan Perlis, Doug McIlroy, Christopher Strachey, and Bell Labs macro processors such as GPM and M6.

Kernighan and Ritchie developed the original `m4` at Bell Labs in 1977. GNU M4 was released by Rene Seindal in 1990 to remove artificial limits in many traditional implementations, including line length, macro size, and macro-count limits.

Francois Pinard maintained GNU M4 in the early 1990s and released version 1.4 in 1994. After a long stable period, maintenance resumed with Paul Eggert, Gary V. Vaughan, Eric Blake, and later releases in the 1.4 series through 1.4.20.

Historique d'adoption

The GNU manual notes that `m4` is widely available on Unix systems and standardized by POSIX. Many users install GNU M4 indirectly because GNU Autoconf requires it to generate configure scripts.

The supplied package-manager facts show the package across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, Nix, MacPorts, Scoop, and openSUSE, which matches its role as a baseline development dependency.

Modes d'utilisation

GNU M4 can be invoked as `m4 [option...] [file...]`. It supports macro expansion, file inclusion, shell-command execution, arithmetic, text manipulation, and recursion.

In package builds, direct human-written M4 macros are less common than Autoconf usage, but maintainers still care about GNU M4 compatibility because configure-generation failures often trace back to macro behavior.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

GNU M4 is one of the quiet pieces of the Autotools stack: many source packages do not need it at runtime, but build-from-VCS workflows and autoreconf pipelines often need the GNU implementation.

It matters to package maintainers because POSIX `m4`, vendor `m4`, and GNU M4 have historically differed in limits and extensions, and Autoconf intentionally standardized on GNU M4 to avoid those limitations.

Chronologie

  • 1977: Original Bell Labs m4 described by Kernighan and Ritchie
  • 1990: Rene Seindal released GNU M4
  • 1994: GNU M4 1.4 released as a long-lived stable version
  • 2004: 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 addressed long-standing bugs
  • 2025: GNU M4 1.4.20 released

Related projects

  • GNU Autoconf is one of GNU M4's biggest users and requires GNU M4 as its macro engine.
  • Traditional Unix m4 implementations, GPM, M6, M5, and Ratfor-related preprocessors are part of the historical macro-processor lineage.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 8 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
m4cliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-10
version du gestionnaire1.4.21
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontnot checked
dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/confiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:m4
Version1.4.21
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/m4
Page d'accueilhttps://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
Dépôthttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/m4.git
Docs amonthttps://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual
LicenceGPL-3.0-or-later
Archive sourcehttps://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.21.tar.xz
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sequoia, sonoma, tahoe, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namem4
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyyes
URL Keys
  • stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Debian apt95%

m4 1.4.19-8

macro processing language

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

sudo apt install m4
  • Section: interpreters
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 dépendances optionnelles
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: m4 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

m4-doc 1.4.19-8

Documentation for GNU m4

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

sudo apt install m4-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: m4
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: m4-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

m4

nix profile install nixpkgs#m4
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
nixpkgs package indexes · raw.githubusercontent.com · nixpkgs package indexes: m4 from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
Ubuntu apt95%

m4 1.4.19-4build1

macro processing language

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

sudo apt install m4
  • Section: interpreters
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 dépendances optionnelles
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: m4 from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
Ubuntu apt95%

m4-doc 1.4.19-4build1

Documentation for GNU m4

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

sudo apt install m4-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: m4
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: m4-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

m4 1.4.20-r1

GNU macro processor

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4

sudo apk add m4
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: m4
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 1 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: m4 from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

m4-doc 1.4.20-r1

GNU macro processor (documentation)

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4

sudo apk add m4-doc
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: m4
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: m4-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

m4 1.4.21-1.fc45

GNU macro processor

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

sudo dnf install m4
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.3-or-later AND FSFULLR AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Autoconf-exception-generic-3.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Texinfo-exception AND
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: m4
  • 2 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: m4 from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

m4 1.4.21-2

The GNU macro processor

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4

sudo pacman -S m4
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 1 Dépendances
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: m4 from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/core/os/x86_64/core.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

m4 1.4.21-1.2

GNU m4

https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/

sudo zypper install m4
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Category: Development/Languages/Other
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: m4
  • 1 Dépendances
  • 2 fournit
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: m4 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

m4

sudo port install m4
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: devel/m4/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Scoop95%

main/m4

scoop install main/m4
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : M4
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/m4.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

Outils liés

  • autoconfPopular package that depends on this formula.
  • crosstool-ngPopular package that depends on this formula.
  • libtoolPopular package that depends on this formula.
  • m-cliPackage name indicates the same formula family.

Même workflow

  • diffutilsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, gnu, text-processing.
  • enscriptShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, gnu, text-processing.
  • gawkShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, gnu, text-processing.
  • grepShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, gnu, text-processing.
  • wdiffShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, gnu, text-processing.
  • alignShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, text-processing.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/m4.yml

Sources utilisées

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment