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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Gettext</title>
+ <!-- this has been fixed in upstream gnulib, when a new version of
+ gettext is released, please check #4055 to see if the change has been
+ picked up in this package -->
+ <para>Suppress two invocations of test-lock which on some machines
+ can loop forever.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/^TESTS =/d' gettext-runtime/tests/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;
+sed -i 's/test-lock..EXEEXT.//' gettext-tools/gnulib-tests/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Gettext for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \