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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Update/create minetest po files
+
+# an auxiliary function to abort processing with an optional error
+# message
+abort() {
+	test -n "$1" && echo >&2 "$1"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+# The po/ directory is assumed to be parallel to the directory where
+# this script is. Relative paths are fine for us so we can just
+# use the following trick (works both for manual invocations and for
+# script found from PATH)
+scriptisin="$(dirname "$(which "$0")")"
+
+# The script is executed from the parent of po/, which is also the
+# parent of the script directory and of the src/ directory.
+# We go through $scriptisin so that it can be executed from whatever
+# directory and still work correctly
+cd "$scriptisin/.."
+
+test -e po || abort "po/ directory not found"
+test -d po || abort "po/ is not a directory!"
+
+# Get a list of the languages we have to update/create
+
+cd po || abort "couldn't change directory to po!"
+
+# This assumes that we won't have dirnames with space, which is
+# the case for language codes, which are the only subdirs we expect to
+# find in po/ anyway. If you put anything else there, you need to suffer
+# the consequences of your actions, so we don't do sanity checks
+langs=""
+
+for lang in * ; do
+	if test ! -d $lang; then
+		continue
+	fi
+	langs="$langs $lang"
+done
+
+# go back
+cd ..
+
+# First thing first, update the .pot template. We place it in the po/
+# directory at the top level. You a recent enough xgettext that supports
+# --package-name
+potfile=po/minetest.pot
+xgettext --package-name=minetest -F -n -o $potfile src/*.cpp src/*.h
+
+# Now iterate on all languages and create the po file if missing, or update it
+# if it exists already
+for lang in $langs ; do # note the missing quotes around $langs
+	pofile=po/$lang/minetest.po
+	if test -e $pofile; then
+		echo "[$lang]: updating strings"
+		msgmerge -F -U $pofile $potfile
+	else
+		# This will ask for the translator identity
+		echo "[$lang]: NEW strings"
+		msginit -l $lang -o $pofile -i $potfile
+	fi
+done