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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2005-02-19 22:16:42 +0000
commit81fd230419b0cfd052b08fc1ed352bb7d49975df (patch)
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parent2f9131f8390243dbc350fe2eeb9e1d58f0264888 (diff)
Trunk is now identical to Testing
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter05/gettext.xml b/chapter05/gettext.xml
index feb4c38ed..ceca963c1 100644
--- a/chapter05/gettext.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gettext.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@
<title>Gettext-&gettext-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="gettext.html"?>
+<indexterm zone="ch-tools-gettext">
+<primary sortas="a-Gettext">Gettext</primary>
+<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
+
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -15,6 +20,8 @@
<seglistitem><seg>0.5 SBU</seg><seg>55 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/gettext.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
@@ -25,17 +32,46 @@
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --disable-libasprintf \
--disable-csharp</userinput></screen>
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<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>--disable-csharp</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This tells Gettext not to use a C# compiler, even if a
+C# compiler is installed on the host. This needs to be done because
+once we enter the chroot environment, C# will no longer be
+available.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
-<para>To test the results, issue:
-<userinput>make check</userinput></para>
+<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>And install the package:</para>
+<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
+<sect2 role="content"><title/>
+<para>Details on this package are located in <xref linkend="contents-gettext" role="."/></para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
+