• http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/developer.html
• http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechDocumentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,3954,00.html
• http://www.i18nguy.com/

• ocaml-gettext may be turned into a Debian package.
• It is based on Camomile (development site), an OCaml library to manipulate Unicode.

To ease compilation of their packages, it is better to know:

• http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/policy/svn-howto?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

Prerequisites and their Debian package in sid (if any):

• OCaml v3.08.3 or later,
  • ocaml (3.08.3-7)

# aptitude install ocaml

• findlib v1.0.4 or later,
  • ocaml-findlib (1.0.4-3)

# aptitude install ocaml-findlib

• ocaml-fileutils v0.3.0 or later,
  • libfileutils-ocaml-dev (0.3.0-4) (upstream is http://www.gallu.homelinux.org/ocaml-fileutils.html)

# aptitude install libfileutils-ocaml-dev

• gettext v0.14.3 or later,
  • gettext (0.14.5-2)

# aptitude install gettext

• OUnit v1.0.1 or later Only if you want to build unitary test tool,
  • libounit-ocaml-dev (1.0.1.a-1)

# aptitude install libounit-ocaml-dev

• Docbook DTD and stylesheets v4.3 Only if you want to build the documentation,
  • docbook (4.3-1.1)

# aptitude install docbook

• xsltproc v1.1.12 or later, Only if you want to build the documentation,
  • xsltproc (1.1.14-1)

# aptitude install xsltproc

Actually the place is: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint

These packages were, up to now, built with opkg-buildpackage. To build opkg-buildpackage:

$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/tools/opkg-buildpackage
$ cd opkg-buildpackage ; dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot ; cd -
$ sudo dpkg -i opkg-buildpackage_0.1.3_all.deb

• Here in svn: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-ast-analyze/?rev=0&sc=0
• See http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/gildor/ocaml-ast-analyze.html
• ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305742
• NB: dependency on camlidl

$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-ast-analyze/upstream ocaml-ast-analyze
$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-ast-analyze/trunk/debian ocaml-ast-analyze/debian
$ cd ocaml-ast-analyze ; opkg-buildpackage
$ sudo dpkg -i libast-analyze-ocaml-dev_0.1.1-2_all.deb

From sources (the library is installed through ocaml-find) :

$ wget http://www.gallu.homelinux.org/download/ocaml-ast-analyze-0.1.1.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf ocaml-ast-analyze-0.1.1.tar.gz 
$ ocaml-ast-analyze-0.1.1/
$ ./configure --libdir=/usr/local/lib/ocaml/3.08.3
$ make
$ make install

• Here in svn: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/camomile/?rev=0&sc=0
• See http://camomile.sourceforge.net/

$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/camomile/upstream camomile
$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/camomile/trunk/debian camomile/debian
$ cd camomile ; opkg-buildpackage
$ sudo dpkg -i libcamomile-ocaml-data_0.6.1-2_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libcamomile-ocaml-dev_0.6.1-2_i386.deb

From sources (on debian stable, camomile 0.6.2, OCaml 3.08.3. Installation is made through ocamlfind):

$ tar jxvf ~/pub/expdem/external-sources/camomile-0.6.2.tar.bz2 
$ cd camomile-0.6.2/
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Only if you want to build benchmarking tool,

• Here in svn: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-benchmark/?rev=0&sc=0
• See http://ocaml-benchmark.sourceforge.net/

$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-benchmark/upstream ocaml-benchmark
$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-benchmark/trunk/debian ocaml-benchmark/debian
$ cd ocaml-benchmark ; opkg-buildpackage
$ sudo dpkg -i libbenchmark-ocaml-dev_0.6-2_i386.deb

This package has highly non-free dependency.

$ sudo aptitude install java-package

$ make-jpkg j2re-1_4_2_02-linux-i586.bin
$ sudo dpkg -i sun-j2re1.4_1.4.2+02_i386.deb

• fop v0.20.5 or later. Only if you want to build the documentation,
  • http://xml.apache.org/fop/
  • fop (1:0.20.5-5)

$ sudo aptitude install fop

Thanks to Sylvain Le Gall, all packages outside Debian may be found in this repository.

• In svn: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-gettext/?rev=0&sc=0
• http://webperso.easyconnect.fr/gildor/ocaml-gettext/reference-manual/ch02s02.html
• ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305743

If needed, you can use ./configure –help to have a complete help on every option you can use to tweak the installation of ocaml-gettext. To enable documentation generation, use –enable-doc. To enable benchmark executable, use –enable-bench. To enable test executable, use –enable-test.

# aptitude install chrpath

$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-gettext/upstream ocaml-gettext
$ svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ocaml-maint/trunk/packages/ocaml-gettext/trunk/debian ocaml-gettext/debian
$ cd ocaml-gettext ; opkg-buildpackage
$ sudo dpkg -i libgettext-ocaml-data_0.2.0-2_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libgettext-ocaml_0.2.0-2_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i libgettext-ocaml-dev_0.2.0-2_i386.deb

Compilation done on Debian sarge, OCaml 3.08.3:

$ ./configure --disable-doc --disable-bench --libdir=/usr/local/lib/ocaml/3.08.3
$ make
$ make install

• https://mail.gna.org/public/geocaml-cvs/2004-06.mbox.gz