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License information

The gettext package is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3, a copy of which can also be found in the COPYING file in the source repository.

From LUMI/23.12 on, the license information can also be found in the $EBROOTGETTEXT/share/licenses/gettext subdirectory after loading the module.

User documentation

Usually, programs are written and documented in English, and use English at execution time for interacting with users. This is true not only from within GNU, but also in a great deal of proprietary and free software. Using a common language is quite handy for communication between developers, maintainers and users from all countries. On the other hand, most people are less comfortable with English than with their own native language, and would rather be using their mother tongue for day to day's work, as far as possible. Many would simply love seeing their computer screen showing a lot less of English, and far more of their own language.

GNU gettext is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, the GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages. These tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs themselves, a runtime library supporting the retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to massage in various ways the sets of translatable strings, or already translated strings. A special GNU Emacs mode also helps interested parties in preparing these sets, or bringing them up to date.

There is web-based documentation for GNU gettext.

Pre-installed modules (and EasyConfigs)

To access module help and find out for which stacks and partitions the module is installed, use module spider gettext/<version>.

EasyConfig:

Technical documentation

EasyBuild

gettext 0.21 from 21.06 on

  • This repository provides 2 configurations of gettext

    • The -minimal configuration is compiled with a minimum of external dependencies. i.e., only ncurses

    • The regular configuration is more full-featured. It has however dependencies that themselves use gettext during the build process so we had to provide a more minimalistic version to work around circular dependencies.

    This aspect is different from the EasyConfigs in the Easybuilders and CSCS repositories. These repositories provide an in-between version that uses a libxml2 produced with EasyBuild rather than the internal one used in the -minimal configuration and hence also uses zlib.

Version 0.21.1 from LUMI/22.12 on

  • Trivial port of the EasyConfig for 0.21.

  • LUMI/23.12: Added license information to the installation.

Version 0.22 for LUMI/24.03

  • Trivial port of the EasyConfigs for 0.21.1 for LUMI/23.12.

Archived EasyConfigs

The EasyConfigs below are additonal easyconfigs that are not directly available on the system for installation. Users are advised to use the newer ones and these archived ones are unsupported. They are still provided as a source of information should you need this, e.g., to understand the configuration that was used for earlier work on the system.