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+# Aap recipe for Dutch Vim spell files.
+
+# Use a freshly compiled Vim if it exists.
+@if os.path.exists('../../../src/vim'):
+    VIM = ../../../src/vim
+@else:
+    VIM = vim
+
+SPELLDIR = ..
+FILES    = fr_FR.aff fr_FR.dic
+
+all: $(SPELLDIR)/fr.latin1.spl $(SPELLDIR)/fr.utf-8.spl ../README_fr.txt
+
+$(SPELLDIR)/fr.latin1.spl : $(VIM) $(FILES)
+        :sys env LANG=fr_FR.ISO8859-1
+		$(VIM) -e -c "mkspell! $(SPELLDIR)/fr fr_FR" -c q
+
+$(SPELLDIR)/fr.utf-8.spl : $(VIM) $(FILES)
+        :sys env LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
+		$(VIM) -e -c "mkspell! $(SPELLDIR)/fr fr_FR" -c q
+
+../README_fr.txt : lisez-moi.txt
+        :copy $source $target
+
+#
+# Fetching the files from OpenOffice.org.
+#
+OODIR = http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries
+:attr {fetch = $(OODIR)/%file%} fr_FR.zip
+
+# The files don't depend on the .zip file so that we can delete it.
+# Only download the zip file if the targets don't exist.
+fr_FR.aff fr_FR.dic: {buildcheck=}
+        :assertpkg unzip patch
+        :fetch fr_FR.zip
+        :sys $(UNZIP) fr_FR.zip
+        :delete fr_FR.zip
+        @if not os.path.exists('fr_FR.orig.aff'):
+                :copy fr_FR.aff fr_FR.orig.aff
+        @if not os.path.exists('fr_FR.orig.dic'):
+                :copy fr_FR.aff fr_FR.orig.dic
+        :sys patch <fr_FR.diff
+
+
+# Generate diff files, so that others can get the OpenOffice files and apply
+# the diffs to get the Vim versions.
+
+diff:
+        :assertpkg diff
+        :sys {force} diff -a -C 1 fr_FR.orig.aff fr_FR.aff >fr_FR.diff
+        :sys {force} diff -a -C 1 fr_FR.orig.dic fr_FR.dic >>fr_FR.diff
+
+
+# Check for updated OpenOffice spell files.  When there are changes the
+# ".new.aff" and ".new.dic" files are left behind for manual inspection.
+
+check:
+        :assertpkg unzip diff
+        :fetch fr_FR.zip
+        :mkdir tmp
+        :cd tmp
+        @try:
+            @import stat
+            :sys $(UNZIP) ../fr_FR.zip
+            :sys {force} diff ../fr_FR.orig.aff fr_FR.aff >d
+            @if os.stat('d')[stat.ST_SIZE] > 0:
+                :copy fr_FR.aff ../fr_FR.new.aff
+            :sys {force} diff ../fr_FR.orig.dic fr_FR.dic >d
+            @if os.stat('d')[stat.ST_SIZE] > 0:
+                :copy fr_FR.dic ../fr_FR.new.dic
+        @finally:
+            :cd ..
+            :delete {r}{f}{q} tmp
+            :delete fr_FR.zip
+
+
+# vim: set sts=4 sw=4 :