1 The update.pl script is included here. This script should be run like
4 ./update.pl [OPTIONS] ...LANGCODE
6 By default, this script updates the pot file (the po template generated
7 from the source code) and merges it with the po files (translations).
9 For instance to do this for Danish, type the following
14 The update.pl script also supports other options, they are:
16 -V, --version shows the version
17 -H, --help shows this help page
18 -P, --pot only generates the potfile
19 -M, --maintain search for missing files in POTFILES.in
21 Especially the --maintain option is very handy for package maintainers
22 to check if you included all the files that have marked strings in the
23 POTFILES.in, so they will be in the generated pot file (po template).
25 You should make sure that the files found by the update.pl script are
26 either distributed or always create during the build process. Otherwise
27 "make distcheck" may fail preventing the release.
29 The script supports the --help option for further help, though its not
30 very extensive for the moment.
37 update.pl is are copyright 2000 The Free Software Foundation and me.