[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/gettext-tiny: Add new package

Vadim Kochan vadim4j at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 13:12:11 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 3:45 PM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Vadim,
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 17:22:26 +0300, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> > From: Vadim Kochan <vadim.kochan at petcube.com>
> >
> > Add gettext-tiny package from the sabotage-linux project:
> >
> > gettext-tiny provides lightweight replacements for tools typically used
> > from the GNU gettext suite, which is incredibly bloated and takes a lot
> > of time to build (in the order of an hour on slow devices). the most
> > notable component is msgfmt which is used to create binary translation
> > files in the .mo format out of textual input files in .po format. this
> > is the most important tool for building software from source, because it
> > is used from the build processes of many software packages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim.kochan at petcube.com>
>
> Have you been able to make further progress on packaging gettext-tiny
> as an alternative to the full gettext ? This is definitely something
> I'd like to see integrated in Buildroot, so let us know if you are
> still working or not, or if someone else needs to step up/help.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> https://bootlin.com

Hi Thomas!

I did turn gettext package into virtual one and renamed  gettext as
gettext-gnu and added gettext-tiny (so they became
as virtual providers). While gettext-gnu works ok, I am still trying
to resolve some issues with gettext-tiny. I will let you know
in few days if I have some progress.

Regards,
Vadim Kochan



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