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gettext - Internationalization library ChangeLog

Web site:	https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Repository:	https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=gettext
Wikipedia:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

HOWTO

# GNU gettext 0.25
# ================
# Slackware 14.0: gettext 0.18.1.1
# Slackware 14.1: gettext 0.18.2.1
# Slackware 14.2: gettext 0.19.8.1
# Slackware 15.0: gettext 0.21

# info-gnu: gettext-0.25 released [stable]
# bug-gettext
# Savannah project
# Savannah: GNU gettext 0.25 released

# As of 0.12.1, you can install the runtime part and/or the tools part
# separately.  To install both, follow the HOWTO below.  To install just the
# runtime, cd into gettext-runtime then run configure, make, make install.
# To install just the tools, cd into gettext-tools.

# When upgrading to a new version, skip down to the bottom to clean up
# old files from the previous version before beginning with the new one.

# Seems kind of weird to use --disable-nls here, but I live in the US and
# only read/write English (well), so do not need any translations.  If that
# is not the case for you, leave that off below.  Sometimes gettext is
# required to exist, even if you're going to end up skipping the .mo files.

# Prerequisites (both versions):
# Bison
# javac (java compiler), jar (optional; part of Sun's JDK)
# libc's iconv or libiconv
# Perl
# teTeX or TeX Live's dvips
# texinfo's texi2pdf
# Emacs (optional)

# Get the tarball
cd
test -f installed/gettext-0.25.tar.lz &&
mv -f installed/gettext-0.25.tar.lz .
test ! -f gettext-0.25.tar.lz &&
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gettext/gettext-0.25.tar.lz

# Verify tarball w/ sha256sum:
echo "aa78157d5c9e042c01955091dccf7d7abd4f9463a885b0dbcc70725181ab52\
44  gettext-0.25.tar.lz" | sha256sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
( gpg --list-keys B6301D9E1BBEAC08 > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
  gpg --recv-keys B6301D9E1BBEAC08 ) &&
wget -nc http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gettext/gettext-0.25.tar.lz.sig &&
  gpg --verify gettext-0.25.tar.lz.sig && rm gettext-0.25.tar.lz.sig

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "gettext-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xvf ~/gettext-0.25.tar.lz
cd gettext-0.25
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Configure the build for 64-bit
test $(uname -m) = 'x86_64' &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/doc/gettext-0.25 \
--infodir=/usr/info --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/man --disable-nls

# Configure the build for anything else
test $(uname -m) != 'x86_64' &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/doc/gettext-0.25 \
--infodir=/usr/info --mandir=/usr/man --disable-nls

# Build it
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware package(s)
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg gettext gettext-tools

# Install the new version
make install
ldconfig

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become yourself again
exit

# Save the source for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/gettext-*.tar.*
mv gettext-0.25.tar.lz installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall gettext, this should do it:
cd
su
test -d src/gettext-* && ( cd src/gettext-* ; make uninstall )
( cd /usr/bin
  rm -f autopoint envsubst gettext gettext.sh gettextize msgattrib msgcat \
   msgcmp msgcomm msgconv msgen msgexec msgfilter msgfmt msggrep msginit \
   msgmerge msgunfmt msguniq ngettext recode-sr-latin xgettext )
test -d /usr/doc/gettext && rm -r /usr/doc/gettext
find /usr/doc -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "gettext-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
( cd /usr/include ; rm -f autosprintf.h gettext-po.h libintl.h )
( cd /usr/info ; rm -f autosprintf.info gettext.info )
for libdir in /usr/lib /usr/lib64;
do
  test -d $libdir &&
   ( cd $libdir
     test -d ./gettext && rm -r ./gettext
     rm -f libasprintf.* libgettextlib-*.so libgettextlib.* \
      libgettextpo.* libgettextsrc-*.so libgettextsrc.* libgnuintl.* \
      libintl.* preloadable_libintl.so )
done
rm -f /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
test -d /usr/share/gettext && rm -r /usr/share/gettext
find /usr/share -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "gettext-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
find /usr/share/locale -type f -name "gettext.mo" -exec rm {} \;
( cd /usr/man/man1
  rm -f autopoint.1 envsubst.1 gettext.1 gettextize.1 msgattrib.1 msgcat.1 \
   msgcmp.1 msgcomm.1 msgconv.1 msgen.1 msgexec.1 msgfilter.1 msgfmt.1 \
   msggrep.1 msginit.1 msgmerge.1 msgunfmt.1 msguniq.1 ngettext.1 \
   recode-sr-latin.1 xgettext.1 )
( cd /usr/man/man3
  rm -f bind_textdomain_codeset.3 bindtextdomain.3 dcgettext.3 \
   dcngettext.3 dgettext.3 dngettext.3 gettext.3 ngettext.3 textdomain.3 )
ldconfig
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "gettext-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/gettext-*.tar.*