Re: Complex Makefiles, what to read to understand enough the tar.ball installations

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From: llabash
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <35E9964C.772E62C1@cern.ch>,
  Slava Zimine <Slava.Zimine@cern.ch> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have found it difficult to find on Linux LDP pages docs which
> explain well in details how an average .src.tar.gz packages is
> fabricated and what is going on during it's installation.
> I would like to be able to understand how a program's object files are
> dynamically linked with that bunch of libraries in /usr/lib, /lib/,
> /usr/X11R6/lib and what to do if one library is missed, etc.

Well, try "info gcc" and "info ld".  Also, there are HOWTOs:
  http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/GCC-HOWTO
  http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/ELF-HOWTO
and probably others too.

I've extracted rpms and other such packages to study how they got a package
built and installed.  When building/installing tars, I capture make's output
to see what's going on.

  make 2>&1 | tee mk1.out
  make install 2>&1 | tee mk1ins.out
  ...

Hope this is of some utility.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }

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