Developer Tools and Utilities

• A lot of Linux development is done in C/C++

• Much of this work is done using text based tools

  • Make: software builds
  • gcc/g++: GNU C/C++ compiler
  • (X)Emacs: text editing and a whole lot more
    • A precursor to integrated development environments
  • gdb: GNU debugger
    • DDD: data display debugger, a GUI front end to gdb
  • ar: tool for creating libraries

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