C.1 Standard Unix Development Tools

The following commands are development tools that are commonly found on Unix and Linux systems.

bison

yacc -compatible parser generator.

bsdmake

BSD make program. Use this if you have any BSD makefiles.

cvs

High-level revision control system that sits on top of RCS.

distcc

Frontend that distributes gcc builds across a network.

flex, flex++

A tool that generates lexical analyzers. See lex & yacc (O'Reilly).

cc, gcc

Apple's customized version of gcc , the GNU C compiler.

gdb

Source-level debugger.

gnumake, make

Automate the steps necessary to compile a source code package. GNU and BSD make are included. See Managing Projects with make (O'Reilly).

lex

Generates lexical analyzers. See lex & yacc (O'Reilly).

rcs

Manages file revisions.

unzip

Extracts files from a zip archive.

zip

Creates a zip archive.