[solved] Learning from the sources...

ezzetabi · 2006-10-17 16:08:35

I'd like learning some unix/linux C programming tricks from the sources of the smaller but extra useful programs.

How can I download and browse the source of programs like 'ls', 'file', 'which'?
Be very verbose, I am a newbie of programming... :S

Thanks a lot.

brain0 · 2006-10-17 16:17:56

Install the cvsup package and execute "abs". This will download PKGBUILDs for all arch packages in the current and extra repositories. Then you choose a package, let's choose coreutils now:

cd /some/working/dir
cp -r /var/abs/base/coreutils .
cd coreutils
makepkg -o

Now the sources for coreutils package are in the src/coreutils-X.Y.Z subdirectory. You can do the same for any other arch package to get its sources.

bboozzoo · 2006-10-17 16:55:21

btw. coreutils sources really suck, the indentation used is really insane

ezzetabi · 2006-10-17 22:38:22

thanks a lot, I'll try soon.

liem · 2006-10-18 12:45:02

Check out OpenBSDs CVS-tree. That's from where I'm learning.

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