%general-entities; ]> Gettext tools Prepare Gettext for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \ --without-csharp The meaning of the configure options: --disable-libasprintf This flag tells Gettext not to build the asprintf library. Because nothing in this chapter or the next requires this library and Gettext gets rebuilt later, exclude it to save time and space. --without-csharp This tells Gettext not to use a C# compiler, even if a C# compiler is installed on the host. This needs to be done because once we enter the chroot environment, C# will no longer be available. Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. This takes quite some time, around 7 SBUs. The Gettext test suite is known to experience failures under certain host conditions, for example when it finds a Java compiler on the host. An experimental patch to disable Java is available from the LFS Patches project at . Install the package: make install