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... -- Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba