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Re: [PLUG] C/Makefile Online Documentation
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Therre is an excellent ps file that is included in the debian
distribution called make-doc. This package contains the postscript
files that will fill up a 1" binder. Excellent reading
ziggy@panix.com wrote:
>
> > For makefiles, check out _Managing Projects with Make_, O'Reilly & assoc,
> > ISBN 0-937175-90-0. And for C, there's always _The C Programming Language_,
> > Kernighan and Ritchie, ISBN 0-13-110163-3.
>
> K&R is easily the best resource on programming in C, but it's a little
> dated and intended to reach the professional programmer. When I was
> an undergrad, I found many descriptions befuddling, especially the
> parts that were "implementation defined". It took me many, many moons
> to realize that "implementation defined" meant implementation defined. :-)
>
> K&R is the definitive source on C programming, and I can't think of
> anything else to recommend to readers who find that text a little terse.
> Finding another book published by Addison Wesley is probably a good bet
> should you need to find one.
>
> As for ORA's Make book, it's actually quite old. It spends a lot
> of time talking about differences between various berkeley and system V
> make implementations, as well as a handful of other (once) commonly used
> make(1) replacements. All in all, that book is primarily of historical
> interest at this point in time. (Yes, I bought a copy before coming to
> this conclusion, unfortunately.)
>
> If you're going to be doing C programming under Linux, then you're probably
> going to be using a recent version of GNU make. The make info files are
> pretty good, and you can convert the texinfo sources into something
> printable, or find one of the dead trees versions of the same document
> (and support the FSF with your purchase).
>
> Sadly, good make documentation is hard to come by.
>
> HTH,
>
> Z.
>
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