Re: [KJ] make pdfdocs broken in 2.6.19rc2 and needs fixes

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:09:39 +0100 Alan Cox wrote:

> Ar Sul, 2006-10-22 am 23:47 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> > When you do make pdfdocs  with 2.6.19rc2-git7 you get tons of error 
> > messages and  then some corrupted PDFs in the end.
> 
> Some vendor shipped pdf and TeX tools are problematic. It works
> correctly on Red Hat except for kernel-api which has become too big for
> the default settings when ext4 was added. The TeX hash size gets
> exceeded, TeX emits
> 
> "! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=60000].
> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me."

I have a k-doc note to self which says something like "move all
filesystems from kernel-api to filesystems-api".  That was just
for compartmentalization or modularization, not to fix this tools
problem, but it would do that as well.  So I can do that soon.

> Really it would be nice to find a more modern way from the input to pdf
> without going via tex.

Agreed.

I've been thinking of exploring other transform tools, but I
haven't taken the time to do that yet.

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~Randy