Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-333

Chapter 11. General Utilities

Intltool-0.51.0

Introduction to Intltool

The Intltool is an internationalization tool used for extracting translatable strings from source files, collecting the extracted strings with messages from traditional source files (<source directory>/<package>/po) and merging the translations into .xml, .desktop and .oaf files.

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

Package Information

Intltool Dependencies

Required

XML-Parser-2.57

Installation of Intltool

First fix a warning that is caused by perl-5.22 and later: 

sed -i 's:\\\${:\\\$\\{:' intltool-update.in
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The above regular expression looks unusual because of all the backslashes. What it does is add a backslash before the right brace character in the sequence '\${' resulting in '\$\{'.

Install Intltool by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D doc/I18N-HOWTO \
    /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0/I18N-HOWTO

Contents

Installed Programs: intltool-extract, intltool-merge, intltool-prepare, intltool-update, and intltoolize
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/intltool-0.51.0 and /usr/share/intltool

Short Descriptions

intltoolize

prepares a package to use intltool.

intltool-extract

generates header files that can be read by gettext.

intltool-merge

merges translated strings into various file types.

intltool-prepare

updates pot files and merges them with translation files.

intltool-update

updates the po template files and merges them with the translations.