%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 not to include its 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. --disable-csharp Gettext has an unwanted habit of searching for a C# compiler on the host, and building bindings for it. We have already locked ourselves into the temporary tools which does not include a C# compiler. Compile the programs: 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