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Originally Posted by ephemera
Porting tends to be easy (or easier) if the devs have atleast considered the possibility of their software being used on a Unix that isn't Linux. 
But generally its not easy. Hey, Grey Lehey even wrote a book about porting Unix software (please google).
I guess one of the hurdles would be figuring out all the GNU stuff such as automake/autoconf. |
That is fantastic book. From his web page you can also download freely
Lion's Commentary, The Unix Text Processing, and The Complete FreeBSD.
I just do not know of any better books for their target audience.
Kernel Hacking, Text Processing using vi+sed+awk+Troff, and FreeBSD.