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| author | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-11-15 00:53:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2005-11-15 00:53:24 +0000 |
| commit | ba098b62b0afc86a89e278aef2633a0c46dcf538 (patch) | |
| tree | c64765a5c7ef57faab775c8bd6c9d0e19079e323 /chapter05/gettext.xml | |
| parent | ac1d807e5b0000b359cc0e5f31519c3d57b93569 (diff) | |
Reduce commands for gettext in chapter 5. Thanks to Greg Schafer.
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diff --git a/chapter05/gettext.xml b/chapter05/gettext.xml index 7957209ac..422ffb022 100644 --- a/chapter05/gettext.xml +++ b/chapter05/gettext.xml @@ -27,44 +27,31 @@ <sect2 role="installation"> <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> <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> <para>Compile the package:</para> -<screen><userinput>make</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> +<screen><userinput>make -C lib +make -C src msgfmt</userinput></screen> -<para>Install the package:</para> +<para>Install the single static binary:</para> -<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> +<screen><userinput>cp -v src/msgfmt /tools/bin</userinput></screen> </sect2> |