source: chapter08/intltool.xml@ a9e964e

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<sect1 id="ch-system-intltool" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="intltool.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>intltool</productname>
    <productnumber>&intltool-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&intltool-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Intltool-&intltool-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-intltool">
    <primary sortas="a-Intltool">Intltool</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Intltool is an internationalization tool used for extracting
    translatable strings from source files.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&intltool-fin-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&intltool-fin-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Intltool</title>

    <para>First fix a warning that is caused by perl-5.22 and later:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's:\\\${:\\\$\\{:' intltool-update.in</userinput></screen>

    <note><para>The above regular expression looks unusual because of all the
    backslashes.  What it does is add a backslash before the right brace
    character in the sequence '\${' resulting in '\$\{'.</para></note>

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

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
install -v -Dm644 doc/I18N-HOWTO /usr/share/doc/intltool-&intltool-version;/I18N-HOWTO</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-intltool" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Intltool</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>intltool-extract, intltool-merge, intltool-prepare,
        intltool-update, and intltoolize</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/intltool-&intltool-version; and
        /usr/share/intltool</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="intltoolize">
        <term><command>intltoolize</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Prepares a package to use intltool</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-intltool intltoolize">
            <primary sortas="b-intltoolize">intltoolize</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="intltool-extract">
        <term><command>intltool-extract</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Generates header files that can be read by <command>gettext</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-intltool intltool-extract">
            <primary sortas="b-intltool-extract">intltool-extract</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="intltool-merge">
        <term><command>intltool-merge</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Merges translated strings into various file types</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-intltool intltool-merge">
            <primary sortas="b-intltool-merge">intltool-merge</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="intltool-prepare">
        <term><command>intltool-prepare</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Updates pot files and merges them with translation files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-intltool intltool-prepare">
            <primary sortas="b-intltool-prepare">intltool-prepare</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="intltool-update">
        <term><command>intltool-update</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Updates the po template files and merges them with the translations</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-intltool intltool-update">
            <primary sortas="b-intltool-update">intltool-update</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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