13.4.3 ‘Makevars’ in ‘po/’

The ‘po/’ directory also has a file named ‘Makevars’. It contains variables that are specific to your project. ‘po/Makevars’ gets inserted into the ‘po/Makefile’ when the latter is created. The variables thus take effect when the POT file is created or updated, and when the message catalogs get installed.

The first three variables can be left unmodified if your package has a single message domain and, accordingly, a single ‘po/’ directory. Only packages which have multiple ‘po/’ directories at different locations need to adjust the three first variables defined in ‘Makevars’.

As an alternative to the XGETTEXT_OPTIONS variables, it is also possible to specify xgettext options through the AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION autoconf macro. See AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION in ‘po.m4’.

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