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<title>Installing Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
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<screen>Estimated build time:           &gettext-time-tools;
Estimated required disk space:  &gettext-compsize-tools;</screen>

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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Gettext</title>

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the programs:</para>

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

<para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
checks to ensure it built correctly. However, the Gettext test suite here in
Chapter 5 is known to experience failures under certain host conditions -- for
example, if it finds a Java compiler on the host (Note: an experimental patch
to disable Java is available from the patches project). The Gettext test suite
takes a very long time to run and is not considered critical. Therefore,
we don't recommend running it here. Should you choose to run it, the following
command will do so:</para>

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

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

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

</sect2>

</sect1>