Building Unix System V Software

A companion to Source File Management with SCCS, this comprehensive guide describes a critical part of the software engineering process: the build process. This process deals with the transformation of a collection of source files into a UNIX software product. In this volume, the primary emphasis is placed on build instructions. Four chapters are devoted to the make command, one of the most commonly used UNIX development utilities. In addition to showing how to write makefiles, Silverberg provides models that can easily be modified for use by the reader and adapted to a wide variety of products. Other topics covered include: how to control the version of tools used to build the product, how to write scripts for installing and removing software products, how to integrate macro preprocessors into the build process, how to modify object files and build libraries, and how to build a shared library file.

Beginning with a step-by-step description of how to write UNIX makefiles, which tell the make command how to build a product, this instructive text describes how to build a UNIX software product; provides models for makefiles that can be modified for specific applications; shows how to control the version of tools used to build the product; and much more.