- The
GCC-HOWTO contains much
useful information about development on Linux (at least, I think it
does; I maintain it). It should be available from the same place as
you found this, which is why the link above is relative.
- The
linux-gcc mailing list (which is also the
linux.dev.gcc newsgroup, if you have a linux.* news feed) is
really the best place to see what's happening, usually without even
posting to it. Remember, it's not Usenet, so keep the questions down
unless you're actually developing. For instructions on joining the
mailing list, mail a message containing the word help to
majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu. Archives of the list are at
http://www.linux.ncm.com/linux-gcc/.
- There's a certain amount of information about what the
linux-gcc list is doing at my
linux-gcc web page, when I remember to update it. This also
has a link to the latest version of this HOWTO, and the patches it
refers to. For US people and others with poor links to UK academic
sites (that's nearly everyone outside of UK academia), this is all
mirrored at
http://www.blackdown.org/elf/elf.html
- There's also documentation for the file format on
tsx-11. This is probably of most use to people who want to
understand, debug or rewrite programs that deal directly with binary
objects.
- H J Lu's document
ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective
contains much useful and more detailed information on programming with
ELF. If you aren't LaTeX-capable, it is also available as PostScript.
- Information about the ncurses library and the terminfo
database is available from
Eric Raymond's ncurses resource page.
- There is a manual page covering
dlopen(3) and related
functions, which is supplied with the ld.so package.