# $Id: INSTALL 6915 2004-11-02 09:16:12Z leo $

The source of Parrot m4 is part of the Parrot distribution.

Internally Parrot m4 uses the "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"-library.
The source of the PCRE-library can be fetched fromt http://www.pcre.org/.
Please follow the the instructions in INSTALL in the fetched distribution.
When the shared library 'libpcre' is installed in a non-default location,
make sure that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set accordingly.

Build and test with:

     cd parrot/languages/m4
     make
     make test

There are no install routines yet.

Proceed with reading the scant documentation in parrot/languages/m4/doc.
