Hi Maxime,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:

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> From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 14:13:59 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Define canned recipes for creating translated manuals.
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> It is expected that at some point in the future, the manual's
> source will be split in several files per-chapter.  Prevent
> the build recipes from diverging by defining and using two
> ‘canned recipes’ in the makefile for translating the manual
> and individual chapters.
>
> * doc/local.mk
>   (guix.%.texi, guix-cookbook.%.texi): move recipe ...
>   (translate_manual_command): ... to here.
>   (contributing.%.texi): move recipe ...
>   (translate_chapter_command): ... to here.

This had fallen through the cracks.

I updated it so it applies on current master (see below).  However, it
doesn’t work as expected:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ rm -f doc/contributing.fr.texi
$ make doc/contributing.fr.texi
make: 'doc/contributing.fr.texi' is up to date.
$ ls -l doc/contributing.fr.texi
ls: ne eblas atingi 'doc/contributing.fr.texi': Dosiero aŭ dosierujo ne ekzistas
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If I inline the expansion of ‘translate_chapter_command’, everything
works as expected.

My GNU Make is rusty and fuzzy, but I wonder if we can expand text that
includes tabs.  I vaguely remember that I’d usually define functions
that would expand the whole text: target/prerequisites + commands.

WDYT?

Ludo’.