On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:37:39PM -0500, stephen Turner wrote: > From a user perspective it has been a treat. I had issues with the GNU > M4 compiling on a embedded musl and PCC system but this M4 compiled > quick and clean. The only potential downside i can think of is it may > not be well maintained. last i checked the website there were no new > releases from when we tweaked the make file. There is another project > called elftoolchain which replaces binutils but i haven't tested it > yet. >
This m4 variant is very portable. If I remember correctly I could compile it on Plan9/APE once (maybe with some modifications). Also, the elftoolchain is an interesting project but you never hear much about it and I guess the FreeBSD people are now moving to the LLVM variants/alternatives to binutils when applicable?
