Bug#380322: tex-common: bigger pool size should be used in texmf.conf
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:19 +0200, Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> I just tried to build the kernel documentation using 'make pdfdocs' in
> /usr/src/linux. This failed, showing the error message
>
> TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=322750].
>
> in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.log. After adjusting
> pool size to 2500000 in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf, the
> documentation built perfectly. I suggest always using a value for 'pool
> size' that will always allow building the kernel documentation.
What toolchain is being used for building the kernel documentation?
AFAIKT the pdfdocs target uses db2pdf from docbook-utils, which in turn
uses (pdf)jadetex. If this is correct, then it would be more appropriate
for jadetex to sepcify a format specific increased pool size in
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf, ie something like
pool_size.jadetex = 2500000
pool_size.pdfjadetex = 2500000
JadeTeX is known to be exceptionally resource hungry.
cheerio
ralf
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