Tuesday, January 18, 2011

GNU Toolchain

The GNU toolchain is a blanket term for a collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. These tools form a toolchain used for developing applications and operating systems.
Projects included in the GNU toolchain are:
GNU make: Automation tool for compilation and build
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC): Suite of compilers for several programming languages
GNU Binutils: Suite of tools including linker, assembler and other tools
GNU Bison: Parser generator
GNU m4: m4 macro processor
GNU Debugger (GDB): Code debugging tool
GNU build system (autotools):
   Autoconf
   Autoheader
   Automake
   Libtool

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