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8.2 Using ‘autom4te’
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The Autoconf suite, including M4sugar, M4sh, and Autotest, in addition
to Autoconf per se, heavily rely on M4.  All these different uses
revealed common needs factored into a layer over M4: ‘autom4te’(1).

   ‘autom4te’ is a preprocessor that is like ‘m4’.  It supports M4
extensions designed for use in tools like Autoconf.

* Menu:

* autom4te Invocation::         A GNU M4 wrapper
* Customizing autom4te::        Customizing the Autoconf package

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   (1) Yet another great name from Lars J. Aas.