Changeset a971ec4 for chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

Timestamp:

03/06/2002 09:59:52 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

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Children:

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Message:

change of msgfmt description to be more accurate

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1669 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/glibc-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/glibc-inst.xml

@@ -50 +50 @@
 
 <para>The missing msgfmt (from the gettext package which we will install
-later in this chapter) is not fatal. The files msgfmt would create are
-already pre-built, so you won't be missing out on anything. You would
-only need it if you make changes to the Glibc internationalization (i18n)
-files. Since we don't do this by default, we can safely ignore it.</para>
+later in this chapter) won't cause any problems. msgfmt is used to generate
+the binary translation files that are used to make your system talk in a
+different language. Because these translation files have already been
+generated for you, there is no need for msgfmt. You'd only need msgfmt if
+you change the translation source files (the <filename>*.po</filename>
+files in the <filename class="directory">po</filename> subdirectory) which\
+would require you to re-generate the binary files.</para>
 
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