looking for online howtos/tutorials for newbie developers

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Trevor Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:44:31 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> >  i'm interested in collecting some online tutorials that cover introductory
> >development using gcc.  things like basic gcc, simple options, how libraries
> ...
> >  and, of course, all of this to be done under linux.  thanks.
> 
> I'm taking a course this semester on C development in a GNU linux
> environment. The course web site is:
> 
> http://www.cs.dal.ca/~dirk/2132/2132.html
> 
> 
> The recommended texts are:
> 
> K. N. King, C Programming: A Modern Approach, (Norton, 1996).
> 
> K. Reek, Pointers on C, (Addison Wesley, 1997).
> 
> B. W. Kernighan and D. M. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, second
> edition, (Prentice Hall, 1988).

i'm familiar with only the last one, but remember, i'm not looking
for howtos on programming in C; i'm interested in docs that describe
the entire development environment in linux using the GNU toolset
for people who most likely already know how to program in C, perhaps
coming from a windows environment, and need to know how all the GNU
tools work together. 

as i mentioned, there is the book "programming with gnu software" from
o'reilly, but it's getting fairly dated (1995).  in a perfect world,
there would be a book like "open source development tools", covering
things like gcc, how libraries work, linkers, make, the autotools,
and so on.  sadly, i don't see one out there.

rday