error when building the manual

[Kai Habel]

Thorsten Meyer schrieb:
> 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
>   
Hello Thorsten,

since I am using OpenSuse 11.0 I have changed /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
to a new value
save_size = 7500. Now the documentation compiles flawlessly.

Thanks for the information.

Kai