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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Oct 9 12:45:04 UTC 2018


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
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com


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