Developing software with GNU

An introduction to the GNU development tools

This is edition 0.1.5

Last updated, 26 March 1999

• Preface
• Copying
• Acknowledgements
• Installing GNU software
  • Installing a GNU package
  • The Makefile standards
  • Configuration options
  • Doing a VPATH build
  • Making a binary distribution
• Using GNU Emacs
  • Installing GNU Emacs
  • Basic Emacs concepts
  • Configuring GNU Emacs
  • Using vi emulation
  • Navigating source code
  • Using Emacs as an email client
  • Handling patches
  • Inserting copyright notices with Emacs
  • Hacker sanity with Emacs
  • Further reading on Emacs
• Compiling with Makefiles
  • Compiling simple programs
  • Programs with many source files
  • Building libraries
  • Dealing with header files
  • The GPL and libraries
  • The language runtime libraries.
  • Basic Makefile concepts
  • More about Makefiles
• The GNU build system
  • Introducing the GNU tools
  • Installing the GNU build system
  • Hello world example with Autoconf and Automake
  • Understanding the hello world example
  • Using configuration headers
  • Maintaining the documentation files
  • Organizing your project in subdirectories
  • Applying the GPL
  • Handling version numbers
  • Hello world with acmkdir
• Using Automake
  • Simple use of Automake
  • General Automake principles
  • Installation standard directories
  • Libraries with Automake
  • Applications with Automake
  • Dealing with built sources
  • Embedded text with Automake
  • Scripts with Automake
  • Emacs Lisp with Automake
  • Guile with Automake
  • Data files with Automake
• Using Libtool
• Using C effectively
• Using Fortran effectively
  • Fortran compilers and linkage
  • Walkthrough a simple example
  • Portability problems with Fortran
  • Other Fortran dialects
  • Popular free software in Fortran
• Internationalization
• Maintaining Documentation
  • Browsing documentation
  • Writing proper manuals
  • Introduction to Texinfo
  • Markup in Texinfo
  • GNU Emacs support for Texinfo
  • Writing man pages
  • Writing documentation with LaTeX
  • Creating a LaTeX package
  • Further reading about LaTeX
• Portable shell programming
• Writing Autoconf macros
• Legal issues with Free Software
  • Understanding Copyright
  • Software patents
  • Export restrictions on encryption software
• Philosophical issues
  • The Right to Read
  • What is Free Software
  • Why software should not have owners
  • Why free software needs free documentation
  • Categories of software
  • Confusing words
• Licensing Free Software
  • What is Copyleft
  • Why you should use the GPL
  • The LGPL vs the GPL
• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Preamble
  • TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
  • Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs

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