error when building the manual

[Thorsten Meyer]

Kai Habel wrote:
> 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.
>   
Where would be a good place to put a note on this in the documentation?

Thorsten
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