software developing tools
 

which tools do you use for software developing (target platform should be linux, maybe through the use of QT windows even).

Good tutorials for creating makefiles (or tools to do so), configure script creation, gcc usage, etc

Any help is greatly appreciated!

/me uses emacs :}

But if you mean graphical development
tools you could look at kdevelop (which
uses QT, very good library by the way!)
or anjuta ... both have their pros and cons.

Both of them will do the whole
autoconf/automake jumbo-mumbo for you.

Cheers,
Tink

So when you say target platform, does this mean you are interested only in C/C++? Considering Java applications can run on Linux also.
If you are interested in Java, I recommend Eclipse, use Ant for your build scripts, JUnit for unit testing etc.