%general-entities; ]> Gettext tools Prepare Gettext for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \ --disable-csharp The meaning of the configure options: --disable-libasprintf This flag tells Gettext that we don't want its asprintf library. Nothing in Chapter 5 or 6 requires this, and gettext gets rebuilt later, so we exclude it to save time/space. --disable-csharp Gettext has a nasty habit of searching for a C# compiler on the host, and building bindings for it. We've already locked ourselves into the temporary tools though, which doesn't have a C# compiler. Compile the programs: make (If you insist on testing the results, then issue: make check. This takes a very long time, around 7 SBUs. Moreover, the Gettext test suite is known to experience failures under certain host conditions -- for example when it finds a Java compiler on the host (but an experimental patch to disable Java is available from the LFS Patches project).) And install the package: make install