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8 <sect1 id="ch-tools-gettext" role="wrap">
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12 <productname>gettext</productname>
13 <productnumber>&gettext-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&gettext-url;</address>
17 <title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-tools-gettext">
20 <primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary>
21 <secondary>tools</secondary>
24 <sect2 role="package">
27 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
28 href="../chapter06/gettext.xml"
29 xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
32 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
33 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
36 <seg>&gettext-ch5-sbu;</seg>
37 <seg>&gettext-ch5-du;</seg>
43 <sect2 role="installation">
44 <title>Installation of Gettext</title>
46 <para>For our temporary set of tools, we only need to build and install
47 three programs from Gettext.</para>
49 <para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
51 <screen><userinput remap="configure">cd gettext-tools
52 EMACS="no" ./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-shared</userinput></screen>
55 <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
58 <term><parameter>EMACS="no"</parameter></term>
60 <para>This prevents the configure script from determining where to
61 install Emacs Lisp files as the test is known to hang on some hosts.
67 <term><parameter>--disable-shared</parameter></term>
69 <para>We do not need to install any of the shared Gettext libraries at
70 this time, therefore there is no need to build them.</para>
76 <para>Compile the package:</para>
78 <screen><userinput remap="make">make -C gnulib-lib
81 make -C src xgettext</userinput></screen>
83 <para>As only three programs have been compiled, it is not possible to run the
84 test suite without compiling additional support libraries from the Gettext
85 package. It is therefore not recommended to attempt to run the test suite at
88 <para>Install the <command>msgfmt</command>, <command>msgmerge</command> and
89 <command>xgettext</command> programs:</para>
91 <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v src/{msgfmt,msgmerge,xgettext} /tools/bin</userinput></screen>
95 <sect2 role="content">
98 <para>Details on this package are located in
99 <xref linkend="contents-gettext" role="."/></para>