Re: [1.7] makeinfo: too many open files

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 20 22:18, Charles Wilson wrote:
> I ran into the following problem building libtool under cygwin-1.7
> (makeinfo from texinfo-4.8a-1):
> 
> makeinfo -I doc -I
> /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc -o
> /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc/libtool.info
> /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc/libtool.texi
> 
> /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc/libtool.texi:5485:
>  @include `PLATFORMS': Too many open files.
> /usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc/libtool.texi:6191:
>  @include `fdl.texi': Too many open files.
> makeinfo: Removing output file
> `/usr/src/packages/libtool/22/libtool-2.2.7a-10/src/libtool/doc/libtool.info'
> due to errors; use --force to preserve.
> 
> When using the same version of makeinfo under cygwin-1.5, there are no
> problems.  I see that Eric asked about (the same?) problem over on
> bug-texinfo, but I don't see any resolution. It looks like a cygwin-1.7
> problem, not a texinfo problem, to me...
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2009-01/msg00013.html
> Eric, did anything ever come of this?

Any debugging efforts, maybe?


Corinna

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