How to Find Out More

There are many books dedicated to each of the tools covered in this chapter. The following references are good places to start:

• Gough, Brian J., forward by Richard M. Stallman. An Introduction to GCC. Bristol, United Kingdom: Network Theory Limited, 2004.

• Mecklenburg, Robert. Managing Projects with GNU Make. 3rd ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2004.

• Stallman, Richard M., Roland Pesch, Stan Shebs, et al. Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger. 9th ed. Boston, MA: GNU Press, 2002.

• Vesperman, Jennifer. Essential CVS. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2003.

The following book is a good reference for UNIX-specific system calls:

• Stevens, W. Richard, and Stephen A. Rago. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2005.

This book serves as an in depth reference for many programming tools, including source control, GNU make, and gdb:

• Robbins, Arnold. UNIX in a Nutshell 4th ed. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2005.