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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-tools-gettext" role="wrap">
7<title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-tools-gettext">
11<primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary>
12<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
13
14<sect2 role="package"><title/>
15<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
16
17<segmentedlist>
18<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
19<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
20<seglistitem><seg>0.5 SBU</seg><seg>55 MB</seg></seglistitem>
21</segmentedlist>
22
23<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
24
25</sect2>
26
27<sect2 role="installation">
28<title>Installation of Gettext</title>
29
30<para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
31
32<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \
33 --disable-csharp</userinput></screen>
34
35<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
36
37<variablelist>
38<varlistentry>
39<term><parameter>--disable-libasprintf</parameter></term>
40<listitem><para>This flag tells
41Gettext that we don't want its asprintf library. Nothing in this chapter or the next
42requires this, and Gettext gets rebuilt later, so we exclude it to save
43time/space.</para></listitem>
44</varlistentry>
45
46<varlistentry>
47<term><parameter>--disable-csharp</parameter></term>
48<listitem><para>Gettext has a nasty
49habit of searching for a C# compiler on the host, and building bindings for it.
50We've already <quote>locked</quote> ourselves into the temporary tools though,
51which doesn't have a C# compiler.</para></listitem>
52</varlistentry>
53</variablelist>
54
55<para>Compile the programs:</para>
56
57<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
58
59<para>(If you want to test the results, then issue: <userinput>make
60check</userinput>. This takes a very long time, around 7 SBUs. Moreover, the
61Gettext test suite is known to experience failures under certain host
62conditions -- for example when it finds a Java compiler on the host (but an
63experimental patch to disable Java is available from the LFS Patches
64project).)</para>
65
66<para>And install the package:</para>
67
68<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
69
70</sect2>
71
72<sect2 role="content"><title/>
73<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-gettext"/>.</para>
74</sect2>
75
76</sect1>
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