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We want to have an INSTALL file that contains installation instructions for the tarball users. These instructions are necessarily package specific, because they need to list the prerequisites or reference the DEPENDENCIES file. Additionally, many people who are not aware that tarballs are the primary means for source code distribution of GNU packages check out the git repository and then expect to see instructions for installing from that git checkout in the INSTALL file. See e.g. <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62196>. Unfortunately, both Automake (with strictness option = 'gnu') and 'bootstrap' both contain code to copy the generic (not package specific) installation instructions to the file 'INSTALL'. This is not what we want, so we disable it. (Other packages handle this issue by putting part of the installation instructions into the README file. This is suboptimal, because this is not what the README file is for.) * autogen.sh: Import INSTALL.generic from gnulib. * INSTALL: Entirely rewritten, based on poke/INSTALL. * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add INSTALL.generic. * libtextstyle/autogen.sh: Import INSTALL.generic from gnulib. * libtextstyle/INSTALL: Entirely rewritten, based on poke/INSTALL. * libtextstyle/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add INSTALL.generic.
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This file explains how to install GNU gettext from a tarball.
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(If you have checked out the source code repository, start by reading the
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file HACKING instead.)
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Prerequisites
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=============
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Before starting the installation, install the prerequisites listed in the
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file DEPENDENCIES. You need to have at least those marked as 'Mandatory'
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installed.
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Installation
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============
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Then, you can run 'configure':
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$ mkdir build/ && cd build
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$ ../configure
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Here, you can give as arguments to 'configure'
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- configure options, as listen in the 'configure --help' output,
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- Makefile variable assignments for building the binaries, as
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described in the INSTALL.generic file.
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If you are in a 64-bit multilib system with support for building 32-bit
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binaries, you can build a 32-bit poke configuring like this:
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$ ../configure CC="gcc -m32"
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You find a set of known-to-work variable settings for various platforms
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in https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Platforms/Configuration .
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Finally:
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$ make
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$ make check
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$ make install
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