13.4 The Maintainer's View

For the maintainer, the general procedure differs from the C language case in two ways.

• For those languages that don't use GNU gettext, the `intl/' directory is not needed and can be omitted. This means that the maintainer calls the gettextize program without the `--intl' option, and that he invokes the AM_GNU_GETTEXT autoconf macro via `AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])'.

• If only a single programming language is used, the XGETTEXT_OPTIONS variable in `po/Makevars' (see section 12.4.3 `Makefile' pieces in `po/') should be adjusted to match the xgettext options for that particular programming language. If the package uses more than one programming language with gettext support, it becomes necessary to change the POT file construction rule in `po/Makefile.in.in'. It is recommended to make one xgettext invocation per programming language, each with the options appropriate for that language, and to combine the resulting files using msgcat.