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mecab Yet Another Part-of-Speech and Morphological Analyzer
0.996_5 japanese on this many watch lists=2 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 0.996_5Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: mce@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2003-04-23 06:52:30
Last Update: 2026-09-24 19:22:50
Commit Hash: 19b29d7
People watching this port, also watch:: pcre, ja-mecab-ipadic, xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps, screen, sdl
Also Listed In: textproc
License: BSD3CLAUSE GPLv2 LGPL21
WWW:
https://taku910.github.io/mecab/
Description:
MeCab is open source Japanese dependency structure analyzer developed through the joint research project between Graduate School of Informatics Kyoto University and NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Communication Science Laboratories. It has following features: * General-purpose design independent from language, dictionary and corpus. * High precision of analysis based on Conditional Random Fields. * Faster than ChaSen, Juman and KAKASI. * Library is reentrant. * Scripting language bindings such as Perl/Ruby/Python/Java/C#.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb

Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. @ldconfig
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/ja-mecab-0.996_5/catalog.mk
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/ja-mecab-0.996_5/LICENSE
  4. /usr/local/share/licenses/ja-mecab-0.996_5/BSD3CLAUSE
  5. /usr/local/share/licenses/ja-mecab-0.996_5/GPLv2
  6. /usr/local/share/licenses/ja-mecab-0.996_5/LGPL21
  7. bin/mecab
  8. bin/mecab-config
  9. @sample etc/mecabrc.sample
  10. include/mecab.h
  11. lib/libmecab.a
  12. lib/libmecab.so
  13. lib/libmecab.so.2
  14. lib/libmecab.so.2.0.0
  15. libexec/mecab/mecab-cost-train
  16. libexec/mecab/mecab-dict-gen
  17. libexec/mecab/mecab-dict-index
  18. libexec/mecab/mecab-system-eval
  19. libexec/mecab/mecab-test-gen
  20. share/man/man1/mecab.1.gz
  21. @owner
  22. @group
  23. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • ja-mecab>0:japanese/mecab
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/japanese/mecab/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install japanese/mecab
  • pkg install ja-mecab
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: ja-mecab
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (mecab-0.996.tar.gz) = e073325783135b72e666145c781bb48fada583d5224fb2490fb6c1403ba69c59 SIZE (mecab-0.996.tar.gz) = 1398663
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
ja-mecab
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64leriscv64
FreeBSD:13:latest0.996_40.996_4n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly0.996_40.996_4n/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
FreeBSD:14:latest0.996_50.996_50.996_30.996_40.996_50.996_3-0.996_3-
FreeBSD:14:quarterly0.996_40.996_5-0.996_40.996_50.996_30.996_30.996_3-
FreeBSD:15:latest0.996_50.996_5n/a0.996_4n/an/a0.996_40.996_4-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly0.996_50.996_5n/a-n/an/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest0.996_50.996_5n/a-n/an/a---
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
  2. perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
This port is required by:
for Build
  1. japanese/mecab-ipadic-eucjp
  2. japanese/mecab-ipadic-sjis
  3. japanese/mecab-ipadic-utf8
  4. japanese/mecab-jawiki
for Libraries
  1. japanese/p5-MeCab
  2. japanese/p5-Text-MeCab
  3. japanese/py-fugashi
  4. textproc/groonga
  5. textproc/senna

Deleted ports which required this port:

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  1. japanese/php5-mecab*
  2. japanese/py-mecab*
  3. japanese/ruby-mecab*
  4. textproc/php-mecab*
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Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for ja-mecab-0.996_5: DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
japanese_mecab
USES:
gettext-tools iconv libtool perl5
pkg-message:
For install:
ipadic was split into japanese/mecab-ipadic port.
Master Sites:
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  1. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1SJjk4IylQaO2yGc0vMtx5MHhZcjaeMLZ&dummy=/
  2. https://github.com/PROoshio/mecab/raw/master/
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