[bug#70169] [PATCH 5/7] maint: Generate 'doc/version-LANG.texi' reproducibly.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
>>
>>> +$(eval $(call version.texi-from-git,vti,doc/guix.texi,))
>>> +$(foreach lang, $(MANUAL_LANGUAGES),                               \
>>> +   $(eval i=$(shell echo $$(($(i)+1))))                    \
>>> +   $(eval $(call 
>>> version.texi-from-git,$(i),po/doc/guix-manual.$(lang).po,-$(lang))))
>>
>> Maybe we could drop ‘i’ and instead create ‘samp-fr’, ‘stamp-de’, and so
>> on?  That is, ‘version.texi-from-git’ would take 2 arguments instead of 3.
>
> I don't think so, or, I wouldn't know how to do that.  The stamp-N is
> created by Automake's magic.  They are distributed together with the
> version-LANG.texi files.
>
> If Automake would have used stamp-LANG, this would have been much
> easier, we could probably have used stem (%) instead of this hairy
> function.

Oh, I see.  I didn't know there were internal uses of ‘stamp-N’.

Ludo’.