Explain how to remedy the TeX save_size error.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 78f3667256c064f62c9c3aaadfe5fafeaa7e7dc6..536b4a4b57e3fcdb36b413831d974aba83a17280 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-03-09  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * doc/Makefile (%.pdf): Explain how to remedy the save_size error.
+       Report and solution by Simon Josefsson.
+
 2008-03-06  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        Make fflush after ungetc work on BSD platforms.

diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
index dee70925ba86d904326489cdc9cecc7e7a468451..989236e397029fb8cce0573886867b77892bf7e8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/Makefile
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ TEXI2HTML = $(MAKEINFO) --no-split --reference-limit=2000 --html
        LANG= LC_MESSAGES= LC_ALL= LANGUAGE= makeinfo --no-split --reference-limit=2000 $<
 
 %.pdf: %.texi
-       texi2pdf $<
+       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