diff --git a/lam/po/make_all b/lam/po/make_all
index d0a29d6c..e7cec041 100755
--- a/lam/po/make_all
+++ b/lam/po/make_all
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ echo "Generating Japanese translation template"
 tar -czf messages.po_jp.tar.gz messages.po
 echo " "
 
+echo "Generating Portuguese translation template"
+./make_po_pt
+tar -czf messages.po_pt.tar.gz messages.po
+echo " "
+
 echo "Generating Russian translation template"
 ./make_po_ru
 tar -czf messages.po_ru.tar.gz messages.po
diff --git a/lam/po/make_po_pt b/lam/po/make_po_pt
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..9ac1fa6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lam/po/make_po_pt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# $Id$
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007  Roland Gruber
+# This code is part of LDAP Account Manager (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/lam)
+
+# This script is run after make_po to merge the existing Portugues translations to messages.po
+
+./make_po
+msgmerge -v ../locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po messages.po -o messages.po
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