Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)
On Sunday 15 June 2003 20:53, Bob Proulx wrote: Tinus wrote: Kevin wrote: Tinus wrote: Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The programming C part I already have covered. I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; googling for GNU autoconf gets many hits, at least one of which is a tutorial. Thanx for the advice. Really got scared when I quicly browser thourgh kpopup's configure file, counted 25000+ lines just to compile!!! ;-) :-) chuckle, chuckle. No need to be worried about that. The configure script is a machine generated file. Machine generated files are rarely fun to look at. The configure.ac file is the input file. The .ac part for autoconf. This is the book you want to learn about autoconf, automake and libtool which together are known as the autotools. The book is available both as a browsable online version and as a physical paper version. http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ The autotools can be installed on Debian easily. apt-get install autoconf automake There is also another template based project generator called autoproject. I can't say as I like the output which is generated from a stylistic viewpoint. But 'autoproject' is a way to get a full project directory going quickly. With that disclaimer you might want to give it a test drive. Bob For a direct approach, consider these: GNU Make http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html This book is not free. It is compact and useful. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/make2/ -- Mike Mueller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:16, Kevin McKinley wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 23:40:36 +0200 Tinus Kotzé [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The programming C part I already have covered. IANAP. I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; googling for GNU autoconf gets many hits, at least one of which is a tutorial. Thanx for the advice. Really got scared when I quicly browser thourgh kpopup's configure file, counted 25000+ lines just to compile!!! ;-) Tinus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginning Linux Programming(THANK YOU)
Tinus wrote: Kevin wrote: Tinus wrote: Can somebody advise a tutorial for the make/configure part? The programming C part I already have covered. I believe the make/configure process is generally known as autoconf; googling for GNU autoconf gets many hits, at least one of which is a tutorial. Thanx for the advice. Really got scared when I quicly browser thourgh kpopup's configure file, counted 25000+ lines just to compile!!! ;-) :-) chuckle, chuckle. No need to be worried about that. The configure script is a machine generated file. Machine generated files are rarely fun to look at. The configure.ac file is the input file. The .ac part for autoconf. This is the book you want to learn about autoconf, automake and libtool which together are known as the autotools. The book is available both as a browsable online version and as a physical paper version. http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ The autotools can be installed on Debian easily. apt-get install autoconf automake There is also another template based project generator called autoproject. I can't say as I like the output which is generated from a stylistic viewpoint. But 'autoproject' is a way to get a full project directory going quickly. With that disclaimer you might want to give it a test drive. Bob pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
