This interesting tool valgrind is a debug tool and can been used to find memory bug, include memory leak. There is a rpm in Fedora Core 3 CD. You can get it from CD or download the source code from their website. Moreover, this tool is a Free Software, and is freely available under the GNU General Public License. You can use it to debug Linux programs and it's very easy to use.
There are two books i have read when i begin my programming carrer.
One is <Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment> written by W. Richard Stevens. The other is <Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition> written by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet
Because of the diversity of the Unix system, the famous 'configure' script should be runned before compiling the source code on the system. The script check your system environment such as where your library locate and help you decide which part of the source code should be complied. This small simple qucik refrence is made by myself when I started to work as Software Engineer.
This is an alphabetical list of each Autoconf macro used in this book, along with a description of what each does.
The documents is not made by me. I just extract it from the e-book written by Gary V. Vaughan.