GNU Build System HOWTO

This is the home for the GNU Build System HOWTO. This HOWTO is distributed under the GNU General Public License and would be a part of the collection of The Linux Documentation Project. The released version of this document will be available from The LDP website and this page has the current development version in various formats. Comments and suggestions for improvements (including patches to the original DocBook/XML sources) are welcome.

If you maintain a translation of this document in another language, and if there is no corresponding linux documentation project effort for the same, let me know if you would like to host the document here.

Current development version

• One section a page: [tar] [tar.gz] [tar.bz2]
• HTML page: [html.zip] [html.gz] [html.bz2]
• Text file: [txt.zip] [txt.gz] [txt.bz2]
• Postscript: [ps.zip] [ps.gz] [ps.bz2]
• PDF Format: [pdf.zip] [pdf.gz] [pdf.bz2]
• RTF Format: [rtf.zip] [rtf.gz] [rtf.bz2]
• DocBook/XML: [xml.zip] [xml.gz] [xml.bz2]

Plans for future revisions of the document include:

• A real life (non Hello World!) example.
• How each of the tools work.
• Installation/Upgradation of the tools from sources.
• A section on Frequently Asked Questions.