From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 17:54:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185EB37B401 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 17:54:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CE2943F75 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 17:54:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 96099 invoked by uid 1001); 8 May 2003 00:54:59 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:54:59 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Jim Freeze Message-ID: <20030508005459.GA87916@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <20030507205659.C6876@freeze.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030507205659.C6876@freeze.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for good book on compiling, linking, ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 00:54:27 -0000 On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:56:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, Jim Freeze seemed to write: > Hi > > I am looking for a good book on autoconfig, compiling and linking. > I find myself doing a lot of installs on Solaris, FreeBSD and > Mac OS X, and run across a lot of similar issues. However, > I feel that I am missing some fundamentals on things like > compiler options, library types, linking options, and how > shared libraries are searched for. > > Does a book exist that covers such issues, or am I left > to wonder the man page forest searching for scraps of > knowledge and insight. ;) I know it's not about FreeBSD, but the commands are similar for both platforms, and I found _SAMS'_Teach_Yourself_Linux_Programming 's first 6 chapters to be great info about this stuff. But, as always, man and info pages are the ultimate reference. HTH, -- Josh > > Thanks > > -- > Jim Freeze > ---------- > Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy > it today you can do it again tomorrow. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"