Re: Books to teach myself 'programming infrastructure'

[Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Programming portably is also much more, not the least of which is "use
> prototypes so the compiler will help you do typechecking at the points
> of calls, and will do the Right Things for a wide range of platforms".
> 
> It's also everything else to make your program (again) "...do the Right
> Things for a wide range of platforms".

This new online-browsable book would be very useful to understand the
motivation behind GNU autotools.

http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/

I have just taken a look at it, but it seems to be full of such real-life
experience.

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Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
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