From a03f31e237e017a006ce83e08c954292cf68a73e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabrice Mouhartem <fabrice.mouhartem@ens-lyon.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:40:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] build(make): add translation generation

---
 Makefile  | 5 ++++-
 readme.md | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f1f4c81..5db369b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ publish:
 clean:
 	uv run invoke clean
 
-init:
+%.mo: %.po
+	msgfmt "$^" -o "$@"
+
+init: themes/clean-blog/translations/fr/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
 	uv sync
 
 .PHONY: clean build publish dev init
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index c853061..5a15fd4 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ software:
 - `git`
 - `make`
 - `uv`
+- `gettext`
 
 To synchronise the blog remotely with its intended target, the synchronisation
 is done using `rsync` over `ssh`.
@@ -30,7 +31,10 @@ This blog relies on [pelican](https://getpelican.com) as a static site
 generator. To manage the different python dependencies of this project, we are
 using [`uv`](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) as a python project manager.
 
-To download the dependencies, run `uv sync` or:
+Moreover, translations are managed with python `gettext` which requires
+compiling the translation file.
+
+Those two steps are performed with the following command:
 
 ```sh
 make init