Re: Building prog first

[John Calcote]

Hi Russell,

On 3/21/2010 6:14 AM, Russell Shaw wrote:
> I was limping along for years learning autoconf/make in bits until this
> tutorial came out
>
>   Autotools: a practitioner's guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_to_autoconf_automake_libtool 
>
>
> I realized a lot of useful things after that. The main thing that makes
> it easy is that a real project is stepped through with lots of side 
> discussions,
> and high-level overviews put things in to perspective. I'd really like 
> to have
> a hard-copy book of that tutorial.

Thanks very much for the positive feedback. A much enhanced (and 
somewhat corrected) version of the book is scheduled to be published in 
May 2010 by No Starch Press:

   
http://www.amazon.com/Autotools-Practioners-Autoconf-Automake-Libtool/dp/1593272065

Best regards,
John

> After that, i could understand the autoconf manual. I was on dos/windows
> up to nearly yr2000 or so, so i had to learn unix programming, shell
> programming, make-file programming, m4, how unix processes work etc,
> to be able to look in generated Makefiles and "configure" and see from
> that what errors i was making in configure.ac and automake.am.
> Learning too many things simultaneously, but i know now.