Simon Josefsson wrote on Thursday:
> > Maybe this should documented somewhere?
> >
> > Sure (as far as I'm concerned), please add it to the manual somewhere.
>
> The best place I could find was doc/README, is this ok?
>
> /Simon
>
> diff --git a/doc/README b/doc/README
> index 551f539..34f21b7 100644
> --- a/doc/README
> +++ b/doc/README
> @@ -1 +1,13 @@
> +Meta-documentation for gnulib documentation
> +-------------------------------------------
> +
> regexprops-generic.texi is generated via a utility in findutils.
> +
> +When building the PDF/DVI manual using TeX you may get the following
> +error message:
> +
> + TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
> +
> +To solve this, you will have to increase the 'save_size' value in your
> +texmf.cnf, typically in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf. Increasing it to 50000
> +is known to work.
Since you haven't applied this yet, I added a similar explanation as error
handling to the Makefile:
2008-03-09 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/Makefile (%.pdf): Explain how to remedy the save_size error.
Report and solution by Simon Josefsson.
*** doc/Makefile.orig 2008-03-09 23:59:32.000000000 +0100
--- doc/Makefile 2008-03-09 23:56:20.000000000 +0100
***************
*** 16,22 ****
LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= makeinfo --no-split
--reference-limit=2000 $<
%.pdf: %.texi
! texi2pdf $<
all: info html dvi
info: $(doc).info
--- 16,22 ----
LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= makeinfo --no-split
--reference-limit=2000 $<
%.pdf: %.texi
! texi2pdf $< || { if texi2pdf $< 2>/dev/null | grep 'TeX capacity
exceeded, sorry \[save size=' > /dev/null; then echo '*** You must increase the
save_size in your texmf.cnf file.'; fi; exit 1; }
all: info html dvi
info: $(doc).info
