Packaging hints for binary package distributors
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Although the source of the gettext package comes as a single package,
I recommend that in distributions of binary packages the installed files
be split into three packages:
gettext-runtime
Contents: Runtime libraries and programs.
Audience: Anyone who wants to run internationalized programs.
libtextstyle
Contents: Text styling library.
Audience: Anyone who wants to run or develop programs that produce
styled text, to be displayed in a terminal emulator.
gettext-tools
Contents: Tools and documentation for developers and translators.
Audience: Anyone who wants to develop or localize internationalized
programs, i.e. developers and translators.
Dependencies: requires gettext-runtime.
The 'gettext-runtime' binary package is much smaller than the 'gettext-tools'
binary package (420 KB versus 5.5 MB). I recommend to include it in the default
installation list, like GNU 'coreutils'; in fact, the runtime programs are
utilities for sh programs.
The 'gettext-runtime' binary package can be installed by doing
cd gettext-runtime
./configure
make
make install
The 'libtextstyle' binary package can be installed by doing
cd libtextstyle
./configure
make
make install
The 'gettext-tools' binary package can be installed by building
'gettext-runtime' first, and then
cd gettext-tools
./configure --with-installed-libtextstyle --with-installed-csharp-dll
make
make install
If you want to install all three at the same time, you simply do at the
top-level directory:
./configure
make
make install
The precise split between gettext-runtime, libtextstyle, and gettext-tools
is according to the following file list.
gettext-runtime
$prefix/share/gettext/ABOUT-NLS
$prefix/bin/gettext
$prefix/bin/ngettext
$prefix/bin/envsubst
$prefix/bin/gettext.sh
$prefix/share/man/man1/gettext.1
$prefix/share/man/man1/ngettext.1
$prefix/share/man/man1/envsubst.1
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/gettext.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/ngettext.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/envsubst.1.html
$prefix/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
$prefix/lib/libintl.* (not installed on glibc and Solaris 11 systems)
$prefix/share/locale/locale.alias (not installed on glibc and Solaris 11 systems)
$prefix/include/libintl.h (not installed on glibc and Solaris 11 systems)
$prefix/share/man/man3/*
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/*.3.html
$prefix/share/gettext/libintl.jar
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/javadoc2/*
$prefix/lib/GNU.Gettext.dll
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/csharpdoc/*
$prefix/lib/libasprintf.*
$prefix/include/autosprintf.h
$prefix/share/doc/libasprintf/autosprintf*.html
$prefix/share/info/autosprintf.info
libtextstyle
$prefix/lib/libtextstyle.*
$prefix/include/textstyle.h
$prefix/include/textstyle/*
$prefix/share/doc/libtextstyle/libtextstyle*.html
$prefix/share/info/libtextstyle.info
gettext-tools
Everything else, i.e. currently:
$prefix/bin/msg*
$prefix/bin/xgettext
$prefix/bin/gettextize
$prefix/bin/autopoint
$prefix/bin/recode*
$prefix/share/man/man1/msg*.1
$prefix/share/man/man1/xgettext.1
$prefix/share/man/man1/gettextize.1
$prefix/share/man/man1/autopoint.1
$prefix/share/man/man1/recode*.1
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/msg*.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/xgettext.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/gettextize.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/autopoint.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/recode*.1.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/gettext_*.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/FAQ.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/tutorial.html
$prefix/share/doc/gettext/examples/*
$prefix/share/info/gettext.info*
$prefix/include/gettext-po.h
$prefix/lib/libgettextlib*
$prefix/lib/libgettextsrc*
$prefix/lib/libgettextpo*
$prefix/lib/preloadable_libintl.so (only installed on glibc systems;
actually installed by gettext-runtime's "make install")
$prefix/lib/gettext/*
$prefix/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
$prefix/share/gettext/config.rpath
$prefix/share/gettext/po/*
$prefix/share/gettext/projects/*
$prefix/share/gettext/styles/*
$prefix/share/gettext/gettext.h
$prefix/share/gettext/gettext.jar
$prefix/share/gettext/javaversion.class
$prefix/share/gettext/msgunfmt.tcl
$prefix/share/gettext/archive.git.tar.*
$prefix/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.* (only installed if --without-git specified)
$prefix/share/gettext/archive.cvs.tar.* (only installed if --with-cvs specified)
$prefix/share/gettext-$VERSION/its/*
$prefix/share/aclocal/build-to-host.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/host-cpu-c-abi.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/iconv.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/intlmacosx.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/lib-ld.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/lib-link.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/nls.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/po.m4
$prefix/share/aclocal/progtest.m4
$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-compat.el
$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-compat.elc
$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.el
$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.elc
$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/start-po.el
$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/start-po.elc
Java support:
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If some Java implementation is available, two programs will be compiled to
Java bytecode:
$prefix/share/gettext/gettext.jar
and the gettext-tools package will therefore have a runtime dependency to
the Java virtual machine (OpenJDK, Oracle Java, IBM Java, or other).
C# support:
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For C# support, mono must be available at build time and at run time.