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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
  3. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  4. %general-entities;
  5. ]>
  6. <sect1 id="ch-tools-gettext" role="wrap">
  7. <title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
  8. <?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>
  9. <indexterm zone="ch-tools-gettext">
  10. <primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary>
  11. <secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
  12. <sect2 role="package"><title/>
  13. <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
  14. <segmentedlist>
  15. <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  16. <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  17. <seglistitem><seg>0.5 SBU</seg><seg>55 MB</seg></seglistitem>
  18. </segmentedlist>
  19. <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
  20. </sect2>
  21. <sect2 role="installation">
  22. <title>Installation of Gettext</title>
  23. <para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
  24. <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \
  25. --disable-csharp</userinput></screen>
  26. <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
  27. <variablelist>
  28. <varlistentry>
  29. <term><userinput>--disable-libasprintf</userinput></term>
  30. <listitem><para>This flag tells
  31. Gettext that we don't want its asprintf library. Nothing in Chapter 5 or 6
  32. requires this, and gettext gets rebuilt later, so we exclude it to save
  33. time/space.</para></listitem>
  34. </varlistentry>
  35. <varlistentry>
  36. <term><userinput>--disable-csharp</userinput></term>
  37. <listitem><para>Gettext has a nasty
  38. habit of searching for a C# compiler on the host, and building bindings for it.
  39. We've already <quote>locked</quote> ourselves into the temporary tools though,
  40. which doesn't have a C# compiler.</para></listitem>
  41. </varlistentry>
  42. </variablelist>
  43. <para>Compile the programs:</para>
  44. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  45. <para>(If you insist on testing the results, then issue: <userinput>make
  46. check</userinput>. This takes a very long time, around 7 SBUs. Moreover, the
  47. Gettext test suite is known to experience failures under certain host
  48. conditions -- for example when it finds a Java compiler on the host (but an
  49. experimental patch to disable Java is available from the LFS Patches
  50. project).)</para>
  51. <para>And install the package:</para>
  52. <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  53. </sect2>
  54. <sect2 role="content"><title/>
  55. <para>The details on this package are found in <xref linkend="contents-gettext"/>.</para>
  56. </sect2>
  57. </sect1>