Porting UNIX Software: From Download to Debug (Nutshell Handbooks)

Lehey, Greg

ISBN 10: 1565921267 / ISBN 13: 9781565921269

Published by O'Reilly Media, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Porting UNIX Software: From Download to Debug (Nutshell Handbooks)
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565921267
• ISBN 13: 9781565921269
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Offers help to programmers using software from different software developers and dealing with several "flavors" of UNIX. Details the life cycle of porting from setting up a source tree on a system to correcting platform difference and testing the executable. Discusses the differences between versions of UNIX, addresses common porting problems, and includes suggestions for emulating features not available on the varying platforms. Contains appendices on UNIX data types, compiler options, assembler directives, and CD-ROM producers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About the Author

Greg Lehey is an independent computer consultant specializing in UNIX. Born in Australia, he was educated in Malaysia and England before studying chemistry in Germany and chemical engineering in England. He has spent his professional career in Germany, where he worked for computer manufacturers such as Univac and Tandem, the German space research agency, nameless software houses, and a large user before deciding to work for himself. In the course of over 20 years in the industry he has performed most jobs you can think of, ranging from kernel support to product marketing, systems programming to operating, processing satellite data to programming gasoline pumps. About the only thing he hasn't done is write commercial software. He is currently engaged in the production of CD-ROMs of ported free software, and this book is one result of his experience in this area. He is available for short-term contracts and can be reached by mail at grog@lemis.de.