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Port details

devel/gettext-tools 1.0

GNU gettext development and translation tools

Port info

Maintainer
tijl@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 1.0
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 1.0 · d7a065627c
Quarterly
2026Q4: 1.0
WWW
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Links
cgit · VuXML

Install

Package
# pkg install gettext-tools
installs 1.0 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 1.0
Port
# cd /usr/ports/devel/gettext-tools && make install clean
# make -C /usr/ports/devel/gettext-tools config  # change options first
Size
3.7 MiB download · 28 MiB installed
Depends on
devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/libtextstyle 1.0, devel/libunistring 1.4.2, lang/python312 3.12.15, print/indexinfo 0.3.1_1, textproc/libxml2 2.15.4
License
GPLv3+
Options
3 of 3 on in the package: DOCS EXAMPLES THREADS

Packages by version and architecture

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FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 161.01.0–
FreeBSD 151.01.0–
FreeBSD 141.01.01.0

quarterly (2026Q4)

FreeBSD versionamd64aarch64i386
FreeBSD 151.01.0–
FreeBSD 141.01.01.0

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No unaddressed CVE and nothing reported by pkg audit for the packaged version 1.0.

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Problem reports (1) · open in Bugzilla, most recently changed first

PRSummaryStatusChanged
267193needs-qa maintainer-feedback? devel/gettext-tools: msgmerge -q /dev/null /dev/null hangs uninterruptedly on amd64 in kvmOpen2023-06-12

Commits (33)

Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 1.0
devel/libtextstyle, devel/gettext*: Update to 1.0

devel/gettext-tools: Use external libunistring and libxml2.

lang/python*: Remove dependency on gettext-tools.  It isn't used and
it is gettext-tools that depends on python now.

PR:		293963
Exp-run by:	antoine
d7a065627c
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.26
devel/libtextstyle, devel/gettext*: Update to 0.26

Recent versions of gettext no longer install m4 files in
PREFIX/share/aclocal.  They have to be installed in the work
directory by autopoint for aclocal to find them.

Patch devel/autoconf so autoreconf runs autopoint when gettext related
macros are used in configure.ac (e.g. AM_ICONV).  Previously it only
ran autopoint when AM_GNU_GETTEXT_(REQUIRE_)VERSION was used.

The following ports now require autopoint (i.e. USES=gettext-tools):
benchmarks/sysbench, devel/libhtp, editors/fxite, filesystems/rar2fs,
graphics/gd, net/ucarp, news/fidogate, sysutils/cdrdao

Other fixes:

emulators/mednafen, misc/lifelines: Use older version of gettext macros.
ftp/axel: Patch Makefile.am and configure.ac to get gettext working and
add NLS option.
ftp/wzdftpd: Use autoreconf 2.72.
mail/sympa: Remove hack from configure.ac.
multimedia/dvdauthor: Use ports autoreconf.
net/asterisk-chan_sccp: Drop autoreconf and gettext-tools dependencies.
security/pam_pkcs11: Patch configure.ac so autoreconf can find the
custom directory with m4 files.
sysutils/grub2-efi, sysutils/grub2-pcbsd: Add patch to run autoreconf
with -f flag so it updates all files.
www/wget2: Patch configure.ac to what autopoint expects.

PR:		287167
Exp-run by:	antoine
974099d0bd
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.23.1_1
regression: bump packages known to trigger the pkg 2.1.1 regression

A regression was introduced in pkg 2.1.1 which results in at least those
packages ending up depending on themselves.

Bump to force rebuild them
0dd72a2528
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.23.1
devel/libtextstyle, devel/gettext*: Update to 0.23.1
73490aaa1d
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.23
devel/libtextstyle, devel/gettext*: Update to 0.23

comms/grig, deskutils/xpad, games/7kaa:
Fix problem between autopoint (gettext) and aclocal (automake).
First autopoint installs gettext m4 files in WRKSRC/m4 for the
version of gettext requested in configure.ac.  And then aclocal
should use those files.  These ports were either missing an "-I m4"
flag so aclocal didn't see the autopoint m4 files but used the ones
from LOCALBASE/share/aclocal, which are the wrong version, or they
used the --install flag that makes aclocal copy files from
LOCALBASE/share/aclocal overwriting the autopoint m4 files.

PR:		283536
Exp-run by:	antoine
5d17e8f667
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
devel/gettext: Update to 0.22.5

PR:		277725
Exp-run by:	antoine
9a1d46378e
Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh)
devel/gettext-tools: Impelled to share/man

Approved by:    portmgr (blanket)
11431fb537
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
devel/gettext: Update to 0.22.3

PR:		274309
Exp-run by:	antoine
1209a850bc
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
devel/gettext: Update to 0.22

Convert post-patch commands to real patches.  This way there are errors
when the underlying code changes.

*/*: Fix gettext issues.  The new gettext tools are more strict.

PR:		272210
Exp-run by:	antoine
2c2ec62c72
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
devel/gettext-tools: Compress archive.dir.tar with xz

The configure script falls back to other compression formats
(bzip2, git, gzip, ...) when it fails to detect xz.  This causes pkg
to complain about a pkg-plist error.  Force the configure script to
use xz so it prints a clearer error message when xz fails.

PR:		268663
1414c99d7c
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
devel/gettext: Update to 0.21.1

PR:		267905
Exp-run by:	antoine
fb6a9af3e8
Stefan Eßer (se)
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles

Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.

This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
fb16dfecae
Stefan Eßer (se)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles

It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.

Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.

There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.

This commit implements such a proposal and moves one of the WWW: entries
of each pkg-descr file into the respective port's Makefile. A heuristic
attempts to identify the most relevant URL in case there is more than
one WWW: entry in some pkg-descr file. URLs that are not moved into the
Makefile are prefixed with "See also:" instead of "WWW:" in the pkg-descr
files in order to preserve them.

There are 1256 ports that had no WWW: entries in pkg-descr files. These
ports will not be touched in this commit.

The portlint port has been adjusted to expect a WWW entry in each port
Makefile, and to flag any remaining "WWW:" lines in pkg-descr files as
deprecated.

Approved by:		portmgr (tcberner)
b7f05445c0
Piotr Kubaj (pkubaj)
devel/gettext-tools: don't disable openmp

OpenMP is gettext was disabled 15 years ago in bfe8a9ab273f573d122fd3ae04fdd85d73d0b6e2

Building with OpenMP left for autodetection works on both powerpc (which
doesn't have libomp) and on powerpc64 (which does have libomp), so it's ok to
remove disabling it.

PR:	263634
Approved by:	antoine
ebce5896d4
Gerald Pfeifer (gerald)
devel/gettext-tools: Fix build with non-default prefix

Building this port with a non-default prefix gives the following:

  msgmerge.c:35:10: fatal error: 'textstyle.h' file not found
  #include <textstyle.h>
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.
  *** [msgmerge-msgmerge.o] Error code 1

That is, textstyle.h is present in the appropriate location under
our prefix, alas it's not found.

USES=localbase addresses this.

PR:		258286
Approved by:	tijl (maintainer)
8fbdcf3137
Mathieu Arnold (mat)
One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday. Reported by:	lwhsu
cf118ccf87
Mathieu Arnold (mat)
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
305f148f48
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Update to 0.21.

PR:		248346
Exp-run by:	antoine
846b6b2e0f
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Update to 0.20.2.

PR:		245724
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
Exp-run by:	antoine
1b4858f960
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Add patch with upstream git commit 2336451ed68d91ff4b5ae1acbc1eca30e47a86a9: msgmerge: Fix behaviour of --for-msgfmt on PO files with no translations.

This fixes building libgtop and gcr from git.

PR:		239328
Submitted by:	Ting-Wei Lan <lantw44@gmail.com>
2dd8198e2b
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Require a matching version of libtextstyle.  Gettext fails to build with older versions.

Reported by:	Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com>
f8b6e22fa0
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
devel/gettext*: - Update to 0.20.1. - Add options to install documentation and examples.

devel/libtextstyle:
- Take maintainership because it is now released as part of gettext.

ftp/weex:
- Remove bundled gettext (intl/): no longer supported.
- Patch configure.in, Makefile.am and src/Makefile.am to remove references
  to bundled gettext.
- Patch configure.in to add AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) so aclocal.m4 will
  include gettext .m4 files from m4/ (matching the version set with
  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION) instead of /usr/local/share/aclocal.
- Port to modern gettext: add po/Makevars and fix a problem in the French
  translation.
- Patch configure.in to fix detection of OpenSSL 1.1.
- In port Makefile: add EXAMPLES and NLS options, add ports OpenSSL support,
  set default path for root certificates.

games/lgeneral:
- Patch Makefile.in instead of Makefile.am so USES=autoreconf isn't needed.

www/sarg:
- Patch configure.ac to add AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) so aclocal.m4 will
  include gettext .m4 files from m4/ (matching the version set with
  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION) instead of /usr/local/share/aclocal.
- Port Makefile: remove obsolete post-patch, patching configure also has no
  effect with USES=autoreconf.

PR:		238277
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
2c9ab8d7ad
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt)
Bump ports that should have been bumped along with r484628

Reported by:	kib
e9de24bb79
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Update to 0.19.8.1.

PR:		210232
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
4032d1fc1f
Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3)
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [a-f]*

Approved by:	portmgr blanket
1d1f878054
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Update to 0.19.7

PR:		207245
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
dc9321df42
Jimmy Olgeni (olgeni)
Remove trailing whitespace from Makefiles, A-L.
42bc424f61
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
- Update to 0.19.6 - Set TEST_TARGET

PR:		203549
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
ae71a857a1
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
- Update devel/gettext to 0.19.5.1 - Add THREADS option to devel/gettext-tools

PR:		202125
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
34bda4dbd5
Antoine Brodin (antoine)
Fix a typo in CPE
6ee9d4ebaa
Bartek Rutkowski (robak)
devel/gettext-tools: add CPE information

- Maintainer's timeout (autotools@FreeBSD.org)

PR:		198633
Submitted by:	Shun <shun.fbsd.pr@dropcut.net>
179e8f2ab6
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
- Update devel/automake to 1.15 - Update devel/gettext to 0.19.4 - Update devel/libtool and devel/libltdl to 2.4.5 - This version of libtool has been fixed to pass -fstack-protector to the   compiler during linking.  Add the same fix to USES=libtool.  This should   improve SSP support on FreeBSD/i386 8 and 9. - databases/libmemcached, security/sssd: patch configure.ac so   AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR appear

PR:		196938
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
86c6fc4c0d
Tijl Coosemans (tijl)
Split devel/gettext in devel/gettext-runtime and devel/gettext-tools.  The first contains runtime libraries such as libintl and the latter contains developer tools such as msgfmt.  Ports that use gettext will usually need a LIB_DEPENDS on gettext-runtime and a BUILD_DEPENDS on gettext-tools.

USES=gettext-runtime can be used to set a LIB/BUILD/RUN_DEPENDS on
devel/gettext-runtime and USES=gettext-tools can be used to set a
BUILD/RUN_DEPENDS on devel/gettext-tools.  USES=gettext is now the same
as "USES=gettext-runtime gettext-tools" meaning a LIB_DEPENDS on
devel/gettext-runtime and a BUILD_DEPENDS on devel/gettext-tools.

Update gettext to 0.19.3.

Remove :oldver from converters/libiconv and devel/gettext-runtime.  Leave
symlinks with the old library versions to avoid the need to bump
PORTREVISION on a large number of dependent ports.  When most of the
dependent ports have had normal version updates, PORTREVISION can be
bumped on the remaining ones (low number) and the links can be removed.

Fix some ports that installed files in lib/locale instead of share/locale.

PR:		194038
Reviewed by:	bapt
Exp-run:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
edb7229dd4