Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux: References and Further Reading

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## 16. References and Further Reading

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>     BORLAND C++ TOOLS AND UTILITIES GUIDE, Borland International, 1992,
>     pp. 9-42.
>     [One of the manuals distributed with Borland C++, ver. 3.1. Gives
>     a fairly good intro to make syntax and concepts, using Borland's
>     crippled implementation for DOS.]

>     DuBois, Paul: SOFTWARE PORTABILITY WITH IMAKE, O'Reilly and Associates,
>     1996, ISBN 1-56592-226-3.
>     [This is reputed to be the definitive imake reference, though I did not
>     have it available when writing this article.]

>     Frisch, Aeleen: ESSENTIAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION (2nd ed.), O'Reilly and
>     Associates, 1995, ISBN 1-56592-127-5.
>     [This otherwise excellent sys admin handbook has only sketchy coverage
>     of software building.]

>     Hekman, Jessica: LINUX IN A NUTSHELL, O'Reilly and Associates, 1997, ISBN
>     1-56592-167-4.
>     [Good all-around reference to Linux commands.]

>     Lehey, Greg: PORTING UNIX SOFTWARE, O'Reilly and Associates, 1995, ISBN
>     1-56592-126-7.

>     Mayer, Herbert G.: ADVANCED C PROGRAMMING ON THE IBM PC, Windcrest Books,
>     1989, ISBN 0-8306-9363-7.
>     [An idea-filled book for the intermediate to advanced C programmer.
>     Superb coverage of algorithms, quirks of the language, and even
>     amusements.  Unfortunately, out of print.]

>     Mui, Linda and Valerie Quercia: X USER TOOLS, O'Reilly and Associates,
>     1994, ISBN 1-56592-019-8, pp. 734-760.

>     Oram, Andrew and Steve Talbott: MANAGING PROJECTS WITH MAKE, O'Reilly
>     and Associates, 1991, ISBN 0-937175-90-0.

>     Peek, Jerry and Tim O'Reilly and Mike Loukides: UNIX POWER TOOLS,
>     O'Reilly and Associates / Random House, 1997, ISBN 1-56592-260-3.
>     [A wonderful source of ideas, and tons of utilities you may end up
>     building from the source code, using the methods discussed in
>     this article.]

>     Stallman, Richard M. and Roland McGrath: GNU MAKE, Free Software
>     Foundation, 1995, ISBN 1-882114-78-7.
>     [Required reading.]

>     Waite, Mitchell, Stephen Prata, and Donald Martin: C PRIMER PLUS, Waite Group
>     Press, ISBN 0-672-22090-3,.
>     [Probably the best of the introductions to C programming.  Extensive
>     coverage for a primer.  Newer editions now available.]

>     Welsh, Matt and Lar Kaufman: RUNNING LINUX, O'Reilly and Associates,
>     1996, ISBN 1-56592-151-8.
>     [Still the best overall Linux reference, though lacking in depth
>     in some areas.]

>     The man pages for dpkg, gcc, gzip, imake, ldconfig, ldd, make, nm, patch,
>     rpm, shar, strip, tar, termcap, terminfo, and xmkmf.

>     The BZIP2 HOWTO, by David Fetter.

>     The Glibc2 HOWTO, by Eric Green

>     The LINUX ELF HOWTO, by Daniel Barlow.

>     The RPM HOWTO, by Donnie Barnes.

>     The StarOffice miniHOWTO, by Matthew Borowski.

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[These HOWTOs should be in the `/usr/doc/HOWTO` or `/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini` directory on your system. Updated versions are available in text, HTML, and SGML format from the LDP site, and usually from the respective authors' home sites.]

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