Re: [SLUG] Compile tutorial

2004-11-28 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:27:00AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: Sluggers, can somebody point me to a tutorial on the various components in software building (newbie-comprehensible) :- You'll need to understand the general concept of makefiles http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html and

Re: [SLUG] Compile tutorial

2004-11-28 Thread Rod Butcher
Thanks Ian, the link you provided at http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html is exactly what I was looking for. cheers Rod On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 09:48 +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:27:00AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: Sluggers, can somebody point me

[SLUG] Compile tutorial

2004-11-27 Thread Rod Butcher
Sluggers, can somebody point me to a tutorial on the various components in software building (newbie-comprehensible) :- configure Makefile Makefile.am (automake acts on it to produce Makefile.in ?) Makefile.in automake autoconf etc. I've been getting by by ./configure, make, make install but