GNU gettext utilities: Installers
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14 The Installer’s and Distributor’s View
By default, packages fully using GNU gettext
, internally, are installed in such a way as to allow translation of messages. At configuration time, those packages should automatically detect whether the underlying host system already provides the GNU gettext
functions. If not, the GNU gettext
library should be automatically prepared and used. Installers may use special options at configuration time for changing this behavior. The command ‘./configure --with-included-gettext
’ bypasses system gettext
to use the included GNU gettext
instead, while ‘./configure --disable-nls
’ produces programs totally unable to translate messages.
Internationalized packages have usually many ll.po
files. Unless translations are disabled, all those available are installed together with the package. However, the environment variable LINGUAS
may be set, prior to configuration, to limit the installed set. LINGUAS
should then contain a space separated list of two-letter codes, stating which languages are allowed.