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

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4 total messages Started by Slava Zimine Sun, 30 Aug 1998 00:00

#955

Author: Slava Zimine
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 00:00

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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. 

I guess this subject is more unix then linux and that I should check
for a good book on gcc and make.
Could you give me pointers to books and online docs on this subject? 
Thank you sincerely.
Slava


ccing to Slava.Zimine@cern.ch  would be appreciated.

 

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

#956

Author: Jean-Paul Le Fevre
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00

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Check this page :
http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/index.html

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

#957

Author: friedhelm.mehnert
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00

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Slava Zimine <Slava.Zimine@cern.ch> wrote:

: I guess this subject is more unix then linux and that I should check
: for a good book on gcc and make.
: Could you give me pointers to books and online docs on this subject? 

If you just need an overview, about how things work, have a look
at "Running Linux". It has a chapter about using the c compiler
and make, and it's good to have anyway, so it's not a waste to buy
it.

If you need more in depth documentation, the gnu manuals for gcc
make, the c library and so on are available on line in postscript form. 
Maybe they are even included with the distribution.
They are outdatet by far, but still useful.

Regards,
Friedhelm

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

#958

Author: 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.
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