Learning the GNU development tools

Edition 1

1998-07-29

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Copying
• Introduction to the GNU build system
  • Installing a GNU package
  • Installing the GNU build system
  • Hello world example
  • Maintaining the documentation files
• Copyright and Free Software
  • Understanding Copyright
  • Freeing your software
  • Invoking the `gpl' utility
  • Inserting notices with Emacs
• Compiling with Makefiles
  • Direct compilation
  • Enter Makefiles
  • Problems with Makefiles and workarounds
  • Building libraries
• Using Automake and Autoconf
  • Hello World revisited
  • Using configuration headers
  • The building process
  • Some general advice
  • Standard organization with Automake
  • Programs and Libraries with Automake
  • General Automake principles
  • Simple Automake examples
  • Built sources
  • Installation directories.
  • Handling shell scripts
  • Handling other obscurities
• Using Autotools
  • Introduction
  • Compiler configuration with the LF macros
  • The features of `LF_CPP_PORTABILITY'
  • Writing portable C++
  • Hello world revisited again
  • Invoking `acmkdir'
  • Handling Embedded text
  • Handling very deep packages
• Fortran with Autoconf
  • Introduction to Fortran support
  • Fortran compilers and linkage
  • Walkthrough a simple example
  • The gory details
  • Portability problems with Fortran
• Philosophical issues
  • Why software should not have owners
  • Categories of software
  • Confusing words
  • The X Windows Trap
  • Why free software needs free documentation

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