Drop dependency on m4

m4 was hugely popular in the past, because autotools, automake, flex, bison and
many other things used it. But nowadays it much less popular, and might not even
be installed in the buildroot. (m4 is small, so it doesn't make a big difference.)

(FWIW, Fedora dropped make from the buildroot now,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_make_from_BuildRoot. I think it's
reasonable to assume that m4 will be dropped at some point too.)

The main reason to drop m4 is that the syntax is not very nice, and we should
minimize the number of different syntaxes that we use. We still have two
(configure_file() with @FOO@ and jinja2 templates with {{foo}} and the
pythonesque conditional expressions), but at least we don't need m4 (with
m4_dnl and `quotes').

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/tools/meson-apply-m4.sh b/tools/meson-apply-m4.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 6c5726a7d5..0000000000
--- a/tools/meson-apply-m4.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
-set -eu
-
-CONFIG="${1:?Missing path to config.h}"
-TARGET="${2:?Missing target m4 file}"
-
-if [ ! -f "$CONFIG" ]; then
-    echo "$CONFIG not found."
-    exit 2
-fi
-
-if [ ! -f "$TARGET" ]; then
-    echo "$TARGET not found."
-    exit 3
-fi
-
-DEFINES=()
-mapfile -t DEFINES < <(awk '$1 == "#define" && $3 == "1" { printf "-D%s\n", $2 }' "$CONFIG")
-
-m4 -P "${DEFINES[@]}" "$TARGET"