bug#49145: Cannot build Guix (Texinfo failure)

[HiPhish]

Do you mean like this?

    $ make --file=doc/local.mk xref_command
    doc/local.mk:219: *** missing separator.  Stop.

On Saturday, 26 June 2021 12:58:03 CEST Julien Lepiller wrote:
> The process for translating the manual is as follows: we use po4a to replace
> English strings with the target language's strings. At this point, the
> translation contains English node names. Then, the Makefile is supposed to
> replace these with the actual translation of the node names (that way even
> untranslated strings refer to the correct nodes). However, it seems that in
> your case, that process did not go well.
> 
> I'd rather try to fix the issue than avoid it, but you can always remove
> references to the translated manual from doc/local.mk.
> 
> Can you try running the xref command from doc/local.mk manually, to see if
> it's doing anything wrong?