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Packaging hints for binary package distributors
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Although the source of the gettext package comes as a single package,
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I recommend that in distributions of binary packages the installed files
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be split into two packages:
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Contents: Runtime libraries and programs.
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Audience: Anyone who wants to run internationalized programs.
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Contents: Tools and documentation for developers and translators.
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Audience: Anyone who wants to develop or localize internationalized
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programs, i.e. developers and translators.
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Dependencies: requires gettext-runtime.
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The 'gettext-runtime' binary package is much smaller than the 'gettext-tools'
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binary package (420 KB versus 5.5 MB). I recommend to include it in the default
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installation list, like GNU 'coreutils'; in fact, the runtime programs are
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utilities for sh programs.
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The 'gettext-runtime' binary package can be installed by doing
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The 'gettext-tools' binary package can be installed by doing
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If you want to install both at the same time, you simply do at the toplevel
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The precise split between gettext and gettext-tools is according to the
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$prefix/share/gettext/ABOUT-NLS
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$prefix/bin/gettext.sh
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$prefix/share/man/man1/gettext.1
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$prefix/share/man/man1/ngettext.1
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$prefix/share/man/man1/envsubst.1
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/gettext.1.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/ngettext.1.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/envsubst.1.html
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$prefix/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-runtime.mo
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$prefix/lib/libintl.* (not installed on glibc systems)
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$prefix/lib/charset.alias (not installed on glibc systems)
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$prefix/share/locale/locale.alias (not installed on glibc systems)
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$prefix/include/libintl.h (not installed on glibc systems)
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$prefix/share/man/man3/*
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/*.3.html
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$prefix/share/gettext/libintl.jar
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/javadoc2/*
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$prefix/lib/GNU.Gettext.dll
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/csharpdoc/*
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$prefix/lib/libasprintf.*
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$prefix/include/autosprintf.h
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$prefix/share/doc/libasprintf/autosprintf.html
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$prefix/info/autosprintf.info
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Everything else, i.e. currently:
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$prefix/bin/gettextize
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$prefix/share/man/man1/msg*.1
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$prefix/share/man/man1/xgettext.1
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$prefix/share/man/man1/gettextize.1
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$prefix/share/man/man1/autopoint.1
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/msg*.1.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/xgettext.1.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/gettextize.1.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/autopoint.1.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/gettext_*.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/FAQ.html
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$prefix/share/doc/gettext/examples/*
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$prefix/info/gettext.info*
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$prefix/include/gettext-po.h
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$prefix/lib/libgettextlib*
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$prefix/lib/libgettextsrc*
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$prefix/lib/libgettextpo*
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$prefix/lib/preloadable_libintl.so (only installed on glibc systems)
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$prefix/lib/gettext/*
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$prefix/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/gettext-tools.mo
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$prefix/share/gettext/config.rpath
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$prefix/share/gettext/intl/*
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$prefix/share/gettext/po/*
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$prefix/share/gettext/projects/*
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$prefix/share/gettext/gettext.h
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$prefix/share/gettext/gettext.jar (only installed if gcj is not present)
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$prefix/share/gettext/msgunfmt.tcl
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$prefix/share/gettext/archive.cvs.tar.gz
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$prefix/share/gettext/archive.git.tar.gz (only installed if --with-git specified)
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$prefix/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.gz (only installed if --without-cvs specified)
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$prefix/share/aclocal/codeset.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/fcntl-o.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/glibc2.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/glibc21.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/iconv.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/intdiv0.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/intl.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/intldir.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/intlmacosx.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/intmax.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/inttypes_h.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/inttypes-pri.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/lcmessage.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/lib-ld.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/lib-link.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/lock.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/longlong.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/nls.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/po.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/printf-posix.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/progtest.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/size_max.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/stdint_h.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/uintmax_t.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/visibility.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/wchar_t.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/wint_t.m4
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$prefix/share/aclocal/xsize.m4
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$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-compat.el
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$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-compat.elc
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$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.el
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$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/po-mode.elc
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$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/start-po.el
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$prefix/share/emacs/site-lisp/start-po.elc
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If GNU gcj is available at build time, two programs will be built as native
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$prefix/lib/gettext/gnu.gettext.*
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and the gettext-tools package will therefore have a runtime dependency to
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If GNU gcj is not available at build time but another Java implementation is
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available instead, the two programs will be compiled to Java bytecode only:
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$prefix/share/gettext/gettext.jar
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and the gettext-tools package will therefore have a runtime dependency to
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the Java virtual machine (Sun Java2, IBM Java2, GNU libgcj.jar, or other).
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For C# support, one of pnet or mono must be available at build time; it must
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also be available at run time. If you have both available, choose the desired
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one through the configure option. Note there is no interoperability currently
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between pnet and mono: Programs compiled with pnet don't run with mono, and