Internationalization and gettext Patrick Powell Fri Sep 5 13:01:06 PDT 2003 Internationalization is done using the gettext packages. There are three possibilities to use this functionality: a) no internationalization (default) ./configure b) nationalization if system supports it and gettext installed on your system: ./configure --enable-nls You may discover that system support for NLS has been put into /usr/local/{include,lib}. Sometimes the C compiler does not search these directories by default and you will need to use: configure 'CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include' \ 'LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib' --enable-nls How to Install the gettext software: 1. Get the gettext distribution and install it on your local system ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gettext- Unpack it by using: tar zxvf gettext-.tgz cd gettext- Read the documentation. It is pretty straight forward with respect to installation. 2. Create and/or update the configuration information using the CREATE_CONFIGURE script in the source directory: sh CREATE_CONFIGURE