Thanks for your reply. maybe I was too unspecific, but this is not what I was looking for. Imagine the following situation: I have a already created piece of software that has English localization and comes with Autotools configuration. I'd like to understand the steps I have to go through to add an e.g. french localization as well. What are the things I need to look at (e.g. by changing the configuration, add something etc), to have Autotools package take care on the newly added fr.po file (translate it intot an fr.gmo file, copy it to the local language folder etc). Hopefully this will make it clearer?

Cheers,
Max