%general-entities; ]> Gettext temporary system Gettext has an issue with cross-compiling where it can't find getline. Fix it here: cd gettext-tools echo "am_cv_func_working_getline=yes" >> config.cache Prepare Gettext for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/tools \ --host=${LFS_TARGET} --disable-shared \ --cache-file=config.cache --disable-shared This tells Gettext not to create a shared library. Only one program in the Gettext package needs to be built: make -C lib make -C src msgfmt Install the msgfmt binary: cp -v src/msgfmt /tools/bin