The Makefile in install/po has a new target "msg-stats" which prints out statistics concerning the current pot and po files. Here is an example: % make msg-stats ipa.pot has 133 messages id.po: 107/133 80.5% 13 po untranslated, 13 missing, 26 untranslated kn.po: 4/133 3.0% 116 po untranslated, 13 missing, 129 untranslated pl.po: 120/133 90.2% 0 po untranslated, 13 missing, 13 untranslated Also update configure.ac to search for msgcmp, awk & sed programs.