%general-entities; ]> Gettext temporary system Many packages' installation procedures use the msgfmt program for i18n support, so we will compile and install it into /tools. Attr also needs msgmerge and xgettext, so we will install those as well. Only the programs in the gettext-tools directory need to be installed for the temp-system: cd gettext-tools Prepare Gettext for compilation: EMACS="no" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/tools \ --build=${CLFS_HOST} \ --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \ --disable-shared EMACS="no" This prevents the installation of the Emacs Lisp files as the test is known to hang on some hosts. Compile the required programs and support library: make -C gnulib-lib make -C intl pluralx.c make -C src msgfmt msgmerge xgettext Install the msgfmt binary: cp -v src/{msgfmt,msgmerge,xgettext} /tools/bin