source: chapter05/gettext.xml@ c2913ea

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<!DOCTYPE section [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng"
         xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
         xml:id="ch-tools-gettext" role="wrap">
<title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>

<indexterm zone="ch-tools-gettext">
<primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary>
<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>

<section role="package"><title/>
<xi:include href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/*[1]/*[3]/*[2])"/>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>0.5 SBU</seg><seg>55 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

<xi:include href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/*[1]/*[3]/*[4])"/>

</section>

<section role="installation">
<title>Installation of Gettext</title>

<para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \
    --disable-csharp</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--disable-libasprintf</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>This flag tells
Gettext that we don't want its asprintf library.  Nothing in this chapter or the next
requires this, and Gettext gets rebuilt later, so we exclude it to save
time/space.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--disable-csharp</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>Gettext has a nasty
habit of searching for a C# compiler on the host, and building bindings for it.
We've already <quote>locked</quote> ourselves into the temporary tools though,
which doesn't have a C# compiler.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>Compile the programs:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>(If you want to test the results, then issue: <userinput>make
check</userinput>. 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).)</para>

<para>And install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</section>

<section role="content"><title/>
<para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-gettext"/>.</para>
</section>

</section>