gettext: po/POTFILES
13.4.1 ‘POTFILES.in’ in ‘po/’
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The ‘po/’ directory should receive a file named ‘POTFILES.in’. This
file tells which files, among all program sources, have marked strings
needing translation. Here is an example of such a file:
# List of source files containing translatable strings.
# Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# Common library files
lib/error.c
lib/getopt.c
lib/xmalloc.c
# Package source files
src/gettext.c
src/msgfmt.c
src/xgettext.c
Hash-marked comments and white lines are ignored. All other lines list
those source files containing strings marked for translation (⇒Mark
Keywords), in a notation relative to the top level of your whole
distribution, rather than the location of the ‘POTFILES.in’ file itself.
When a C file is automatically generated by a tool, like ‘flex’ or
‘bison’, that doesn’t introduce translatable strings by itself, it is
recommended to list in ‘po/POTFILES.in’ the real source file (ending in
‘.l’ in the case of ‘flex’, or in ‘.y’ in the case of ‘bison’), not the
generated C file.
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