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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-03-06 21:59:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-03-06 21:59:52 +0000 |
| commit | a971ec4c0f17b6b4aa68e80c98088267ab607b02 (patch) | |
| tree | 3d785686ae9f425da60492229823c571779b8aa7 /chapter06 | |
| parent | f1d11bf7683c088124ed6fee62d4ee80222cd6b4 (diff) | |
change of msgfmt description to be more accurate
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1669 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/glibc-inst.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml index 3fc781de8..16f4a7cb0 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml @@ -49,10 +49,13 @@ file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote> <para>The missing msgfmt (from the gettext package which we will install -later in this chapter) is not fatal. The files msgfmt would create are -already pre-built, so you won't be missing out on anything. You would -only need it if you make changes to the Glibc internationalization (i18n) -files. Since we don't do this by default, we can safely ignore it.</para> +later in this chapter) won't cause any problems. msgfmt is used to generate +the binary translation files that are used to make your system talk in a +different language. Because these translation files have already been +generated for you, there is no need for msgfmt. You'd only need msgfmt if +you change the translation source files (the <filename>*.po</filename> +files in the <filename class="directory">po</filename> subdirectory) which\ +would require you to re-generate the binary files.</para> </sect2> |