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Subject: [bug#38436] [PATCH] gnu: Add gfortran-toolchain
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,

> xgettext recognizes (synopsis "foo"), but it won=E2=80=99t catch the vari=
ables
> defined above, because they=E2=80=99re not preceded by the =E2=80=98synop=
sis=E2=80=99 keyword or
> anything.

OK, so what's the exact rule? If the literal string has to be right
after the symbol "synopsis", then your optional-arg approach shouldn't
work when the argument is supplied at the call site (in
gfortran-toolchain).

That would still leave the option of doing something like

  (define-public gfortran-toolchain
   (package (inherit (make-gcc-toolchain gfortran))
     (synopsis ...)
     (description ...)

Cheers,
  Konrad.