On Mon, Sep 27, 2010, 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. >I'm hoping someone knows of a good resource or book that explains the >general 'open source' or '*NIX' method of application development, >compilation, and dependency/library handling. Specifically, how to take >source, and turn it into a "./configure, make, make install" type release >and everything that is involved in doing so. My first recommendation is always Kernighan and Pike's ``Unix Programming Environment'', ancient but still excellent. Another is ``GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool'' by Vaughan, Elliston, Tromey, and Taylor. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Microsoft is to computers what Phillip Morris is to lungs.