What books to read about programming for GNU/Linux?

Question

linux

Interested in books that discuss utilities in detail: make, autoconf, automake, various build systems. Also the gcc compilers. I'm also interested in books that cover building programs from source in more detail than just ./configure && make && make install. Thank you.

Answer 1

Bruce Moley - Unix/Linux. Theory and practice of programming. (2002)

Answer 2

> Interested in books that discuss utilities in detail: make, autoconf, automake. Also compilers [from] gcc.
And in the documentation that comes with these programs, do you think they are considered *not enough* in detail?
You probably won't be typing this, but rather reading it in hypertext (either in Emax or HTML), but since the page is probably still the most intuitive unit:

$ pdf-page-count make/*.pdf autoconf/*.pdf automake/*.pdf gcc/*.pdf
212	make/make.pdf
394	autoconf/autoconf.pdf
184	automake/automake.pdf
28	gcc/cppinternals.pdf
85	gcc/cpp.pdf
84	gcc/gccinstall.pdf
766	gcc/gccint.pdf
922	gcc/gcc.pdf
TOTAL: 2675

Two and a half thousand pages of fascinating details await you. :-)

Answer 3

Advanced programming in the unix environment
The practice of programming
About the general culture:
E. Raymond The art of UNIX programming
You might also like the author Robert Love, you can read about system programming and other delights in ngeo and about the kernel.

Answer 4

J. Fusco "Linux Programmer's Guide"