Re: pdfTex failure

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham, you wrote Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:07 PM

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:47:17PM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
>
> > make doc was failing for me with
> >
> >  TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000].
> >
> > I hacked etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to increase save size,
> > which allowed make doc to proceed, but what is the
> > correct way to fix this?
>
> Sorry, I can't reproduce in native ubuntu or in lilydev.  Can you
> remember any other info about when you saw this?  Was this a doc
> build from scratch, and if so, were you using lilydev 1.1 or
> something else?  Or was this while building the docs on windows
> with your shell scripts?

Sorry, I should have been clearer.  This was in 
Ubuntu 9.10 running under VirtualBox in Vista.  
I don't use lilydev.

The build was a doc build using make doc.  I think
if was after doing make doc-clean, but it seemed
pretty well independent of other things.

After increasing save size to 10000 the doc build
completed perfectly, so all is OK at the moment,
but as I hacked a file which says "don't hack this"
I guess it might revert back again after an update
sometime in the future.

What value do you have for save size in 
etc/texmf/texmf.cnf?

Trevor