Changeset ba098b6 for chapter05/gettext.xml

Timestamp:

11/15/2005 12:53:24 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@…>

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Message:

Reduce commands for gettext in chapter 5. Thanks to Greg Schafer.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7152 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter05/gettext.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter05/gettext.xml

@@ -28 +28 @@
 <title>Installation of Gettext</title>
 
+<para>For our temporary set of tools, we only need to build and install one binary from gettext.</para>
+
 <para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \
-    --without-csharp</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cd gettext-tools
+./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-shared</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
@@ -37 +39 @@
 <variablelist>
 <varlistentry>
-<term><parameter>--disable-libasprintf</parameter></term>
-<listitem><para>This flag tells Gettext not to build the
-<filename class="libraryfile">asprintf</filename> library. Because nothing in this 
-chapter or the next requires this library and Gettext gets rebuilt later,
-exclude it to save time and space.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><parameter>--without-csharp</parameter></term>
-<listitem><para>This ensures that Gettext does not build support for the C#
-compiler which may be present on the host but will not be available once we
-enter the <command>chroot</command> environment.</para></listitem>
+<term><parameter>--disable-shared</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>We are not installing any of the gettext libraries at this
+time so we need to build <command>msgfmt</command> as a static binary.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 </variablelist>
@@ -54 +47 @@
 <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>make -C lib
+make -C src msgfmt</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>To test the results, issue: <userinput>make check</userinput>.
-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
-<ulink url="&lfs-root;patches/"/>.</para>
+<para>Install the single static binary:</para>
 
-<para>Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>cp -v src/msgfmt /tools/bin</userinput></screen>
 
 </sect2>