On 09/28/2010 07:26 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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. A new book on this topic has just been published http://books.slashdot.org/story/10/09/27/1612236/Autotools The review sounds promising. Kal