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# Installing Gettext-0.14.1

    Approximate build time:  7.2 SBU
    Required disk space:     55 MB

Official download location for Gettext (0.14.1):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/

For its installation Gettext depends on: Bash, Binutils, Bison, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

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## Installation of Gettext

Prepare Gettext for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the programs:

    make

As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Gettext test suite anyway, the following command will do so. However, you should be aware that the Gettext test suite is known to experience failures under certain host conditions -- for example, when it finds a Java compiler on the host (Note: an experimental patch to disable Java is available from the patches project). Not only that, the Gettext test suite takes an excessive amount of time to run and is not considered critical:

    make check

And install the package:

    make install

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The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Gettext in Chapter 6.

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