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@@ -83,16 +83,7 @@ Other files you might look into: Some points you might be interested in before installing the package: -1. If you change any of the files in package the Makefile rules will - schedule a recompution of the gettext.pot file. But this is not - possible without this package already installed. - If you don't have this package already installed and modified - any of the files build the package first with - --disable-nls - When this is done you will get a runnable xgettext program which - can be used to recompute gettext.pot. - -2. If your system's C library already provides the gettext interface +1. If your system's C library already provides the gettext interface and its associated tools don't come from this package, it might be a good idea to configure the package with --program-prefix=g @@ -100,19 +91,13 @@ Some points you might be interested in before installing the package: Systems affected by this are: Solaris 2.x -3. Some system have a very dumb^H^H^H^Hstrange version of msgfmt, the +2. Some system have a very dumb^H^H^H^Hstrange version of msgfmt, the one which comes with xview. This one is *not* usable. It's best you delete^H^H^H^H^H^Hrename it or install this package as in the point above with --program-prefix=g -4. On some system it is better to have strings aligned (I've been told - Sparcs like strings aligned to 8 byte boundaries). If you want to - have the output of msgfmt aligned you can use the -a option. But you - also could change the default value to be different from 1. Take - a look at the --alignment option of msgfmt. - -5. The locale name alias scheme implemented here is in a similar form +3. The locale name alias scheme implemented here is in a similar form implemented in the X Window System. Especially the alias data base file can be shared. Normally this file is found at something like @@ -127,19 +112,10 @@ Some points you might be interested in before installing the package: locale.alias. In the misc/ subdirectory you find an example for an alias database file. -6. The msgmerge program performs fuzzy search in the message sets. It +4. The msgmerge program performs fuzzy search in the message sets. It might run a long time on slow systems. I saw this problem when running it on my old i386DX25. The time can really be several minutes, especially if you have long messages and/or a great number of them. If you have a faster implementation of the fstrcmp() function and - want to share it with the rest of use, please contact me. - -7. On some systems it will not be possible to compile this package. - It is not only this package but any other GNU package, too. These - systems do not provide the simplest functionality to run configure. - Today are known the following systems: - - configure name description - -------------- ----------- - mips-mips-riscos 2.1.1AC RISCos + want to share it with the rest of us, please contact me. |