INTLTOOL-UPDATE(8)INTLTOOL-UPDATE(8)NAMEintltool-update - updates PO template file and merge translations with
it
SYNOPSISintltool-update [option]...
intltool-update LANGCODE
DESCRIPTIONintltool-update generates new po file templates from source code, and
merges existing translations with these new po templates.
You must change working directory to the subdirectory containing trans‐
lations (usually "po/") before running intltool-update.
OPTIONS
When executing intltool-update , only one mode of operation is allowed
each time.
Mode of operation
-p
--pot
Generate po template (.pot) only.
-s
--headers
Executes intltool-extract(8) to extract strings inside XML/INI
style files listed in POTFILES.in, and writes the extracted strings
into header files, so that the strings can be recognised by xget‐
text(1).
-m
--maintain
Search for left out files, which should have been listed in POT‐
FILES.in or POTFILES.skip. A list of all these files are written
into another file called "missing".
-r
--report
Display a status report for all translations in the software.
-d LANGCODE
--dist LANGCODE
Merge LANGCODE.po with existing PO template.
Other options
-g NAME
--gettext-package=NAME
Manually specify PO template file name, instead of determining the
name automatically from source. Useful with -p/--pot option. This
option has an additional effect: the name of current working direc‐
tory is no more limited to "po" or "po-*".
-o FILENAME
--output-file=FILENAME
Manually specify output FILENAME after merging old translation with
PO template. Useful either with -d/--dist option or without any
option.
-x
--verbose
Display lots of feedback.
--version
Show version information.
--help
Show usage and basic help information.
EXAMPLES
Creates a new PO template from source code, and name it foo.pot:
intltool-update--pot --gettext-package=foo
Updates translation file xy.po using existing po template called
"bar.pot", and writes output into "xy1.po":
intltool-update--dist --gettext-package=bar --output-file=xy1.po xy
Creates new PO template and updates translation file xy.po (xy.po is
overwritten with new content):
intltool-update xy
(same as intltool-update--pot && intltool-update--dist xy)
FILES
po/POTFILES.in
Contains list of source files which contain translatable
strings, one file per line.
po/POTFILES.skip
po/POTFILES.ignore (obsolete)
Contains list of source files which should be ignored when
searching for translatable strings.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool
AUTHOR
Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com>
Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
SEE ALSOintltoolize(8), intltool-prepare(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-
merge(8), xgettext(1)intltool 2003-08-02 INTLTOOL-UPDATE(8)