m4
Prepare
Section titled “Prepare”./bootstrap --force --skip-git --skip-pois broken as of1.4.20along withautoreconf- Depends on
gperf,help2man,mawkand itself
Configure
Section titled “Configure”changewordis experimental and disabled by default as it degrades performancem4uses bundledgnuliband it can’t be disabled (--without-gnulibdoes not exist)--without-gnulib-prefixprevents searching for an externalgnulib--without-included-regexbreaks build asm4usesgnuextensions likere_compile_pattern,re_searchandre_set_registersm4is single-threaded andgnulibis optimized for that (gl_DISABLE_THREADS) still passing--enable-threads=posixdoes not hurt- No need to pass
--without-libsigsegv-prefixif--without-libsigsegvis set