14.8 Creating a Distribution Tarball ¶

First, in packages where the translations are collected by a translation project, before creating a distribution tarball, the maintainer should fetch the PO files from the translators. There are two ways to do this: Either

$ (cd po; ./fetch-po)

or

$ ./configure
$ (cd po; make fetch-po)
$ make distclean

Second, updating generated files. In projects that use GNU automake, the usual commands for creating a distribution tarball, ‘make dist’ or ‘make distcheck’, automatically update the generated files in the po/ directories as needed.

If GNU automake is not used, the maintainer needs to perform this update before making a release:

$ ./configure
$ (cd po; make update-po)
$ make distclean