The Gettext package contains utilities for internationalization and localization. These allow programs to be compiled with Native Language Support (NLS), enabling them to output messages in the user's native language.
Approximate build time: 0.5 SBU Required disk space: 55 MB
Gettext installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Prepare Gettext for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools
Compile the programs:
make
(If you insist on testing the results, then issue: make check. This takes a very long time, around 7 SBUs. Moreover, the Gettext test suite is known to experience failures under certain host conditions -- for example when it finds a Java compiler on the host (but an experimental patch to disable Java is available from the LFS Patches project).)
And install the package:
make install
The details on this package are found in the section called “Contents of Gettext”.