too many nodes?

[Graham Percival]

Hi all,

Is there a limit on the number of nodes?  I'm using texinfo 4.7 on OSX  
10.3 (via the fink package), and I'm trying to build the LilyPond  
manual (I'm the new Documentation Editor).

After adding a few extra @node commands, I can no longer build the  
docs.  Texinfo complains of "too many open files", which unfortunately  
is a rather common error message (for the purpose of googling for a  
solution).

This might be something particular to OSX (maybe the fink texinfo  
package only allows you to have 128 nodes, or something?), since people  
running GNU/Linux can't reproduce this problem.

Here's the tail output I get when I try to "make web" (the command to  
build the texinfo manual, in both info, ps, and html formats):
----
LANG= makeinfo -I./out-www --output=./out-www/lilypond  
--css-include=/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/ 
texinfo.css --html out-www/lilypond.texi
/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www//notation- 
appendices.texi:211: @include `layout-properties.texi': Too many open  
files.
out-www/lilypond.texi:223: @include `point-and-click.texi': Too many  
open files.
makeinfo: could not open --css-file:  
/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/texinfo.css
out-www/lilypond.texi:229: @include `fdl.texi': Too many open files.
out-www/lilypond.texi:230: @include `cheatsheet.texi': Too many open  
files.
./out-www/lilypond.texi:224: Next reference to nonexistent node `GNU  
Free Documentation License' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./out-www/lilypond.texi:224: Prev reference to nonexistent node `Point  
and click' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www//notation- 
appendices.texi:4: Next reference to nonexistent node `Point and click'  
(perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www// 
notation.texi:1270: Cross reference to nonexistent node `Point and  
click' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www// 
invoking.texi:365: Cross reference to nonexistent node `Point and  
click' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
/Users/gperciva/usr/src/lilypond/Documentation/user/out-www// 
tutorial.texi:67: Cross reference to nonexistent node `Cheat sheet'  
(perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./out-www/lilypond.texi:196: Menu reference to nonexistent node `Cheat  
sheet' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./out-www/lilypond.texi:195: Menu reference to nonexistent node `GNU  
Free Documentation License' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
./out-www/lilypond.texi:193: Menu reference to nonexistent node `Point  
and click' (perhaps incorrect sectioning?).
makeinfo: Removing output file `./out-www/lilypond/index.html' due to  
errors; use --force to preserve.
make[3]: *** [out-www/lilypond/lilypond.html] Error 1
rm out-www/music-glossary.texi
make[2]: *** [WWW] Error 2
make[1]: *** [WWW] Error 2
make: *** [web] Error 2