Re: too many nodes?

[Karl Berry]

    Is there a limit on the number of nodes?  

There is no hard limit, in the sense of a #define or some such.

    This might be something particular to OSX (maybe the fink texinfo  
    package only allows you to have 128 nodes, or something?), 

I very much doubt it.  More likely is that your MacOSX system only
allows a certain number of open files in the system overall, or
per-process.  Googling for  macosx "too many open files"  turns up many
possibilities.

It's also possible that makeinfo is leaking file descriptors.  Under
MacOSX, are there tools to give information about a running process?
That is, you could run makeinfo under a debugger, have it stop at the
first failure, and see how many file descriptors the process has open,
and what they're open on.  Another approach would be to put breakpoints
at fopen and fclose and see if there are tons more open's than close's.

That's what comes to mind ...

karl