October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 9m
English
When you build a program, it usually runs on the system on which you built it. If you compile a simple program, for example, you can immediately run it on the same machine.
This is normally how GNU Autotools are used as well. You run the 'configure' script on a particular machine, you run make on the same machine, and the resulting program also runs on the same machine. In some cases, however, it proves useful to build a program on one machine and run it on another.
One common example is a program that runs on an embedded system. An embedded system is a special-purpose computer, often part of a larger system, such as the computers found within modern automobiles. An embedded system often does ...
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