discuss: Gnu Auto tools mini-HOWTO ?
Subject:
FW: Gnu Auto tools mini-HOWTO ?
From:
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag ####@####.####
Date:
24 Jul 2003 15:16:26 -0000
Message-Id: <E595F3D1FBD61244A9F8ECF0B7A0EF5C0F38AF@ubiinmbx.ubinetics.co.in>
Hi,
This is FYI. I have permission from Andy to send this to the list.
Giridhar
Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> Andy,
>
> Andy Oram wrote:
>> Congratuations on taking on such a large and difficult topic. I
>> suggest you write to Gary V. Vaughan ####@####.#### in England, if
>> you haven't gotten in touch with him already. He works on these
>> tools, has written a commercially published book on them, and
>> started another project that was
>
> I know about the "The Goat Book" published by New Riders written by
> Gary V. Vaughan et. al. The intention of *this* HOWTO is to introduce
> these tools (for developers who want to get started) with a few
> details as to how it works (the non developers who just want to know
> how the whole system works). It is not a replacement of some sort for
> the goat book (which infact, is a *very* comprehensive one, full of
> nice examples and covers a lot more topics like writing portable
> C/C++ [apart from just the tools]). This would also serve the purpose
> of people like [1] Tille who need an intro just to "get over the
> fear" without really reading a book.
>
> [1]
> http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4762:200307:ceejnklaecengajdijnf
>
> Essentially ... cover something like this ...
>
> - Introduction to Make, Automake, Autoconf and Libtool
> - How these tools work (the m4 backend etc.)
>
> After reading this HOWTO, someone who would like to explore serious
> usage, should go to the book or the GNU manuals.
>
>> intended to document them. You may be able to help him or
>> get help from him.
>
> Definitely.
>
> Giridhar
>
> PS: Since there is a discussion on the ####@####.#### list, is it
> ok if I forward your mail there and to Hoebeke Mark who [2] proposed
> this idea on the list?
>
> [2]
> http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4757:200307:aeopnlleadhnjmolnjng
>
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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag ####@####.####
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