diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3986ba505..321f49965 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 dist/
 build/
 locales/
+/inx/
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4c31f17ea..1cc223e47 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -23,11 +23,16 @@ dist: distclean locales
 distclean:
 	rm -rf build dist *.spec *.tar.gz
 
+.PHONY: inx
+inx:
+	mkdir -p inx
+	bin/generate-inx-files
+
+.PHONY: messages.po
 messages.po:
 	rm -f messages.po
 	pybabel extract -o messages.po -F babel.conf --add-location=full --add-comments=l10n,L10n,L10N --sort-by-file --strip-comments .
 
-.PHONY: messages.po
 .PHONY: locales
 locales:
 	# message files will look like this: