error when building the manual

[Thorsten Meyer]

Kai Habel wrote:
> When I try to build the manual for the current tip I get the following
> error:
> 
> kai at linux-nuoy:~/hg-octave/octave/doc> make                          
> making conf.texi from conf.texi.in                                   
> conf.texi is unchanged                                               
> make -C faq all                                                      
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kai/hg-octave/octave/doc/faq'     
> make[1]: Für das Ziel »all« ist nichts zu tun.                       
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kai/hg-octave/octave/doc/faq'      
> make -C interpreter all                                              
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kai/hg-octave/octave/doc/interpreter'
> TEXINPUTS="..:.:./..::" texi2pdf ./octave.texi                         
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)                 
>  file:line:error style messages enabled.                               
> entering extended mode                                                 
> (././octave.texi (/home/kai/hg-octave/octave/doc/interpreter/../texinfo.tex
> Loading texinfo [version 2009-03-07.09]: pdf, fonts, page headings, tables,
> conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,    
> cross references, insertions, (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex 
> This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>                                  
> ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.)
> (./octave.aux
> 
> ../octave.aux:4743: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
> @otherbackslash ->@let \=@realbackslash                         
>                                                                 
> @xrdef #1#2->{@indexnofonts @turnoffactive                      
>                                            @xdef @safexrefname
> {#1}}@expanda...
> l.4743
> @xrdef{doc-uname-pg}{547}                                              
>                                                                               
> 
> ../octave.aux:4743:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file
> produced!    
> Transcript written on
> octave.log.                                             
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status,
> quitting.                  
> make[1]: [octave.pdf] Fehler 1
> (ignoriert)                                    
> TEXINPUTS="..:.:./..::" texi2pdf octave-a4.texi -t
> @afourpaper                
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C
> 7.5.6)                        
>  file:line:error style messages
> enabled.                                      
> entering extended
> mode                                                        
> 
> (/home/kai/hg-octave/octave/doc/interpreter/octave-a4.t2d/pdf/xtr/octave-a4..tex
> i
> (/home/kai/hg-octave/octave/doc/interpreter/../texinfo.tex                  
> 
> Loading texinfo [version 2009-03-07.09]: pdf, fonts, page headings,
> tables,   
> conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns,
> macros,        
> cross references, insertions,
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex     
> This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July
> 2005>                                      
> ) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input
> format.)             
> (./octave-a4.aux
> ../octave-a4.aux:4743: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
> @otherbackslash ->@let \=@realbackslash
> 
> @xrdef #1#2->{@indexnofonts @turnoffactive
>                                            @xdef @safexrefname
> {#1}}@expanda...
> l.4743 @xrdef{doc-license-snt}{}
> 
> ../octave-a4.aux:4743:  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file
> produced!
> Transcript written on octave-a4.log.
> /usr/bin/texi2dvi: pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting.
> make[1]: [octave-a4.pdf] Fehler 1 (ignoriert)
> 
> Is this a problem with my installation or with the current tip? Has
> someone an idea how to fix it?

See this thread:
http://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/octave-maintainers/2008-October/009216.html

You have to increase the save_size in your tex configuration (in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf for debian): since the introduction of texinfo
references for the seealso fields, the octave documentation has been too large
for the default tex settings.

regards

Thorsten