GNU/Linux – Christopher James Willcock

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Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool: The GNU Project Build Tools

Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool were developed separately, to make tackling the problem of software configuration more manageable by partitioning it. But they were designed to be used as a system, and they make more sense when you have documentation for the whole system. This book stands a level above the software packages, giving the expertise of its authors in using this whole system to its fullest. It was written by people who have lived closest to the problems and their solutions in software.

For those times when ./configure says No such file or directory, or in my case, when writing a ./configure-able program for the first time in awhile.

GNU/Linux – more than a name

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Linus Torvalds did not author the ls command · Issue #41 · knpuniversity/behat

The opening page Behat/Using Behat proposes a scenario that Linus Torvalds requests help building ls. I understand this is a thought experiment and a made-up scenario, but perhaps a note in the scr...

Students of programming should learn their history. At the very least, not be given an alternative, misrepresentation of history. As important as where you are going, is where you have been. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that.