2016/10/17

Beginner’s Guide to Installing from Source

• introduce how to install software direct from the original authors
• upstream source : upstream
• end-users : downstream
• $md5sum file-to-check 对文件进行校验
• md5sum -c md5sums-file if provider provides the md5sums file. it check every file in your local file system.
• archive is a file that contains many other files
• Tar originally meant “tape archive”
• (1) What is Make?
• (2) What is configure? What is Makefile.in? What do they do?
• (3) if compiling or linking fails, you must read _________
• strip {filename} 去除debug信息
• target: dependency1 [dependency-n ...]

• command to execute

  重点书目:
  What-are-good-tutorials-to-learn-Linux-Kernel
  crashcourse
  Linux Kernel in a nutshell

答案:
1. Make is an application which takes a configuration-file (called a makefile) that contains a list of rules, most of the form
2. The configure script takes a list of configuration options on the commandline, and converts the template makefile into a real makefile customised for the local computer and the installer’s wishes
3. README or INSTSTALL to check the prerequisite