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devel/gettext 1.0

GNU gettext meta package

Port info

Maintainer
tijl@FreeBSD.org
Packages
latest: 1.0
Upstream
up to date
Last update
to 1.0 · d7a065627c
Quarterly
2026Q4: 1.0
Formerly
devel/gettext-old until 2004-02-03
WWW
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Links
cgit · VuXML · Report wrong data

Install

Package
# pkg install gettext
installs 1.0 from latest; from quarterly (2026Q4) 1.0
Port
# cd /usr/ports/devel/gettext && make install clean
Size
1.1 KiB download · 243 B installed
Depends on
devel/gettext-runtime 1.0_1, devel/gettext-tools 1.0
License
NA

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

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None.

Commits (162)

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
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) · 0.22.5
devel/gettext*: Mark LTO_UNSAFE

PR:		277945
276c687eb6
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.22.5
devel/gettext: Update to 0.22.5

PR:		277725
Exp-run by:	antoine
9a1d46378e
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.22.3
devel/gettext: Update to 0.22.3

PR:		274309
Exp-run by:	antoine
1209a850bc
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.22
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) · 0.21.1
devel/gettext: Update to 0.21.1

PR:		267905
Exp-run by:	antoine
fb6a9af3e8
Stefan Eßer (se) · 0.21
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) · 0.21
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
Bernhard Froehlich (decke) · 0.21
devel/gettext: Remove CPE information for metaport
f740447c31
Bernhard Froehlich (decke) · 0.21
devel/gettext: Add CPE information

Approved by:	portmgr (blanket)
4d685e8275
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 0.21
One more small cleanup, forgotten yesterday. Reported by:	lwhsu
cf118ccf87
Mathieu Arnold (mat) · 0.21
Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.
305f148f48
Matthias Andree (mandree) · 0.21
devel/gettext-po-mode: New port to install po-mode files for emacs

-BEGIN pkg-descr---------------------------
GNU gettext is a framework of libraries and tools for internationalisation
and localisation of software.

This package contains the po-mode for the emacs editor.

WWW: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
-END pkg-descr-----------------------------

This cannot be part of gettext-tools because it would create a
dependency loop through emacs (which we use to byte-compile).

In order to override the MAINTAINER, modify gettext/Makefile.common
to use MAINTAINER?= to accomodate overrides.

Next step: we should modularize up the emacs site-start.el.
Initial email sent to emacs@.
e42ae0646c
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.21
Update to 0.21.

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

PR:		245724
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
Exp-run by:	antoine
1b4858f960
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.20.1
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
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.19.8.1
Update to 0.19.8.1.

PR:		210232
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
4032d1fc1f
Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) · 0.19.7
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [a-f]*

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

PR:		207245
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
dc9321df42
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.19.6
- Update to 0.19.6 - Set TEST_TARGET

PR:		203549
Exp-run by:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
ae71a857a1
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.19.5.1
- 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
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.19.4
Pick up autotools@ ports.

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt)
1a76ed96ab
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.19.4
Readd distinfo which should not have been removed
d52d8a5177
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.19.4
Convert to USES=metaport Remove useless distinfo

Suggested by:	jbeich
a5ecb9c794
Bartek Rutkowski (robak) · 0.19.4
devel/gettext: remove CPE information

- Since CPE should not be applied to meta ports, I am reverting the commit with CPe info

PR:		198631
Approved by:	antoine
bbf38e757e
Bartek Rutkowski (robak) · 0.19.4
devel/gettext: add CPE information

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

PR:		198631
Submitted by:	Shun <shun.fbsd.pr@dropcut.net>
c087cff1f3
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.19.4
- 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) · 0.19.3
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
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.18.3.1_1
Strip binaries Remove useless @exec mkdir
60966ba8c5
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.18.3.1_1
Cleanup plist
e52c1f9d98
Bryan Drewery (bdrewery) · 0.18.3.1_1
Remove excess whitespace
e45c66a8a1
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.18.3.1_1
Remove two libtool fixes from Mk/Uses/libtool.mk.  They don't always work when an older version of a package is installed.  This is the case when an executable links with installed libraries and with uninstalled libraries that link with other uninstalled libraries.  For each of the directly linked libraries the executable will have an rpath (/usr/local/lib for the installed libraries and a path un

With this commit executables will overlink with uninstalled indirect
libraries again so their location is added to the rpath of the executable.

This partially reverts r358784.

PR:		191611
Approved by:	portmgr (bapt)
c958a48581
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.18.3.1_1
Add 4 new sed commands to USES=libtool.  The first two apply some of the changes that Debian made to their libtool.  The first command applies to libtool versions 1.4 and up.  The second command is somewhat more elaborate but essentially it uses the sed hold space to move an "elif...fi" block down.  It applies to 2.x.  Together these reduce overlinking to unpatched .la files (from ports that don't

The third and fourth command fix relinking.  During staging libtool may
relink libA when it links to another library in the work directory libB.
The reason is that libA created during build phase has its runpath set to
the location of libB in the work directory.  This allows running an
executable that links to libA from within the work directory.  The relink
removes this extra runpath.

When libtool relinks libA it replaces "libB.la" on the linker command line
with "-L${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/lib -lB" with the intention to link to libB in
the stage directory but this -L flag isn't necessarily the first so another
libB may be linked instead.  The two sed commands make relink the same as a
normal link.  This means libtool will relink with libraries from the work
directory using a path similar to "../srcB/.libs/libB.so" without -L flags.
This applies to libtool 1.4 and up.  Earlier versions don't seem to relink
libraries.
(This fixes ports like devel/apr1 so they link with freshly built libraries
instead of installed libraries.)

Fix all ports with missing libraries.

Additionally:
archivers/rpm4: USES=patchfix.
databases/gdbm: INSTALL_TARGET=install-strip.
devel/gnome-vfs: remove patch that doesn't change anything.
devel/ois: INSTALL_TARGET=install-strip and use standard USE_AUTOTOOLS.
devel/zziplib: INSTALL_TARGET=install-strip, MAKE_CMD.
multimedia/mjpegtools: remove USE_AUTOTOOLS, use modern compiler on i386
   instead of disabling optimisations.
net/libnetdude: disable static plugins.

PR:		190941
Exp-run:	antoine
Approved by:	portmgr (antoine)
3e4a806167
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.18.3.1_1
Convert to USES=libtool:oldver.
911166d12d
Tijl Coosemans (tijl) · 0.18.3.1
- Add two new arguments to USES=iconv so ports can indicate they use GNU   iconv extensions that the base system iconv doesn't support yet:   * wchar_t: port uses the special WCHAR_T character conversion.   * translit: port uses //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE conversion options.   Adding one or both of these arguments makes the port depend on   converters/libiconv for now. - Allow installation of converte

Approved by:	bapt (on trust)
0052e743ef
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.18.3.1
Fix properties on pkg-plist
e04b632220
Ade Lovett (ade) · 0.18.3.1
Update to 0.18.3.1 -- shockingly, it's backwards compatible so no need to rebuild everything that depends on this.
871f2ce97a
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.18.3
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat: devel part 2)
34b7e6ee7e
Ade Lovett (ade) · 0.18.3
- Update devel/automake to 1.14 - Update devel/gettext to 0.18.3 - Fix known-broken (from exp-runs) ports - Clean up a lot of cruft in the devel/gettext port itself,   based on work from tijl@

PR:		178883
Submitted by:	ade
Sponsored by:	Wadsworth 6X
b3b33257e5
Jason Helfman (jgh) · 0.18.1.1_1
- remove warning for USE_GETTEXT as environment variable - while here convert knobs to optionsNG framework

Approved by:	portmgr (bapt@)
8232838d86
Marcus von Appen (mva) · 0.18.1.1_1
- Convert USE_ICONV=yes to USES=iconv - Change USE_GNOME=pkgconfig|gnomehack to USES=pathfix|pkgconfig while here

Reviewed by:	bapt, kwm
821843ca06
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.18.1.1_1
Prevent using gawk which depends on gettext in configure scripts

Reported by:	rene, avg
Tested by:	rene
85228d9f12
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) · 0.18.1.1_1
Fix a long standing bug of lib/charset.alias being overwritten, modified, and badly tracked by ports.

Make lib/charset.alias a file only provided by converters/libiconv
Create a new USES: charsetfix, that will modify in post patch the Makefile.in to prevent a port from modifying/overwritting the charset.alias file during make install.
Prevent devel/gettext from installing that files.
Fix a couple of ports that actually touch charset.alias during the build phase.

Based on a patch by ale (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2012-October/027747.html)

Approved by:	kwm (gnome)
Exp-run by:	miwi
e7b0f97788
Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) · 0.18.1.1
- Add LDFLAGS to CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV (as it was done with LDFLAGS) - Fix all ports that add {CPP,LD}FLAGS to *_ENV to modify flags instead

PR:		157936
Submitted by:	myself
Exp-runs by:	pav
Approved by:	pav
6f6fbe4bdf
Olli Hauer (ohauer) · 0.18.1.1
-remove MD5
d6db46aade
Ade Lovett (ade) · 0.18.1.1
Sync to new bsd.autotools.mk
4a8684e352
Ade Lovett (ade) · 0.18.1.1
Forcibly tell gettext not to use git to compress the infrastructure archive, even if it's present.

No version bumps, since this is a plist-only thing if and only if
gettext was rebuilt in the presence of git.

Sigh.
79c4fdadd9