Re: pdfetex error during make install

[Leo Butler]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, John W. Eaton wrote:

< On  9-Dec-2009, Leo Butler wrote:
< 
< | While installing v3.2.3, I encountered a couple TeX errors (see below). 
< | Is there an easy fix?
< 
< Yes, increase the value of save_size in your TeX installation.
< 
< The
< 
<   TEXMFCNF="..:.:./..::"
< 
< variable setting is there to tell pdftex to find the texmf.cnf file
< that is distributed with Octave.  That file contains
< 
<   % Increase save size to run @seealso macro for Octave documentation
<   save_size = 10000
< 
< so maybe this file is not being used by your TeX installation?  Maybe
< you need to edit the global texmf.cnf file instead?
 
Thanks, John. The problem is caused by pdfetex, which, according to the debian
man page, does not use the shell variable TEXMFCNF. Leo.

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