GNU, Rpm, and Solaris Software Packages

This book covers GNU packages made with autoconf, automake, libtool, and pkg-config. It will take you from source code to installable package. If you've wanted to put your package on the web with a configure script like all the other packages you've downloaded, this book will tell you how to do that. The answer is to use autoconf, automake, and libtool, and perhaps pkg-config. This gives you a GNU-style package. Once you have your GNU-style package it's fairly easy to generate both a source code and binary RPM package--this book will show you that as well. Included are some basic scripts to help make the generation of the %files (explained inside) section of the spec file easier. This book will also show how to make a Solaris (System V) package. The book has over 100 tables, over 40 figures, and over 90 examples.