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13.7 Creating a Distribution Tarball
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   In projects that use GNU ‘automake’, the usual commands for creating
a distribution tarball, ‘make dist’ or ‘make distcheck’, automatically
update the PO files 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