How do I find out the size of the bss, text segment and data segment for each object or binary file under Linux operating systems?
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GNU C / C++
How do I add Autocomplete support to gedit text editor under Linux Gnome desktop operating systems?
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Q. I’m trying to build PHP5 under FreeBSD jail and I’m getting an error that read as follows:
m4.info-[0-9][0-9] ./m4.i[0-9] ./m4.i[0-9][0-9]; do if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; done; else :; fi && cd “$am__cwd”; if makeinfo –no-split -I . -o ./m4.info ./m4.texinfo; then rc=0; cd .; else rc=$?; cd . && $restore $backupdir/* `echo “././m4.info” | sed ‘s|[^/]*$||’`; fi; rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
makeinfo: not found
*** Error code 127Stop in /usr/ports/devel/m4.
*** Error code 1Stop in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf262.
*** Error code 1Stop in /usr/ports/lang/php5.
*** Error code 1
How do I get rid of this problem and compile applications?
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Q. How can I run a command called foo, and have it timeout / abort after 10 seconds under GNU/Linux running bash shell or script? How do I run command under an alarm clock?
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Q. Solaris and FreeBSD both provide the truss command to monitor and debug system calls. I’m unable to find this command or package. How can I install truss under Linux? A. truss is a debugging utility in Solaris and FreeBSD to monitor the system calls used. It is used to trace call and useful debugging [...]
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Q. I’ve downloaded tar ball software but I don’t know how to compile the same? Can you provide the instructions for compiling a program? A. Many new users find it difficult to compiling programs in Linux. Usually following steps are involved: a] Download tar ball using wget b] Untar tar ball using tar command c] [...]
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Q. I am new to Linux but not to c programming. At university we are using Turbo C compiler under DOS/Windows XP to write and compile C programs. Under Linux I’ve small program called test.c. How do I compile and see the output of C program in Linux? Note I’m using Fedora Core Linux. A. [...]
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