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Message from discussion Adding M4 as standard package

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From: Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Adding M4 as standard package
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Are there any non-exotic systems where a good M4 version is not provided?

On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:34:23 UTC+3, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
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> How do you guys feel about adding a GNU M4 package?  MPIR requires M4, 
> also PPL with its C interface (see #12672) requires a recent version of 
> M4.  This would add about 1.2 MB to the Sage source distribution. 
>

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Are there any non-exotic systems where a good M4 version is not provided?<br><br>On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:34:23 UTC+3, Jeroen Demeyer  wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">How do you guys feel about adding a GNU M4 package? &nbsp;MPIR requires M4,
<br>also PPL with its C interface (see #12672) requires a recent version of
<br>M4. &nbsp;This would add about 1.2 MB to the Sage source distribution.
<br></blockquote>
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