[CentOS] [Slightly OT] "Open Source Development + Tools" - Book/Resource?

Mon Sep 27 21:26:01 UTC 2010
Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:56 -0500, Tim Nelson wrote:
> Greetings all-
> 
> My apologies for the slightly OT post. My primary production platform
> *IS* CentOS 5.x with a minor scattering of 4.x machines behind
> firewalls here and there...
> I find that I'm being placed more and more into a 'quasi-developer'
> role which strays some from my normal system/network admin duties.
> Specifically, having to work with the deep internals of make,
> autoconf, libtool, cross platform compilation, non-standard libs, etc.
> My head spins some days trying to work through some of these types of
> issues.

There is an excellent series of articles on the Pedantic Programmer
blog.
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=185>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=186>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=187>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=188>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=189>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=192>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=196>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=199>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=201>
<http://wp.colliertech.org/cj/?p=208>


It walks through an example usage of make, pgk-config, etc...


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