INTLTOOL-UPDATE(8)

NAME
intltool-update - updates PO template file and merge translations with it

SYNOPSIS
intltool-update [option]...
intltool-update LANGCODE

DESCRIPTION
intltool-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 translations (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 xgettext(1).

-m
--maintain
    Search for left out files, which should have been listed in POTFILES.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 directory 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 ALSO
intltoolize(8), intltool-prepare(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-merge(8), xgettext(1)