From a971ec4c0f17b6b4aa68e80c98088267ab607b02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 21:59:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] change of msgfmt description to be more accurate git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1669 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/glibc-inst.xml | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml index 3fc781de8..16f4a7cb0 100644 --- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml @@ -49,10 +49,13 @@ file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree. *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions. The missing msgfmt (from the gettext package which we will install -later in this chapter) is not fatal. The files msgfmt would create are -already pre-built, so you won't be missing out on anything. You would -only need it if you make changes to the Glibc internationalization (i18n) -files. Since we don't do this by default, we can safely ignore it. +later in this chapter) won't cause any problems. msgfmt is used to generate +the binary translation files that are used to make your system talk in a +different language. Because these translation files have already been +generated for you, there is no need for msgfmt. You'd only need msgfmt if +you change the translation source files (the *.po +files in the po subdirectory) which\ +would require you to re-generate the binary files.