Re: 'make web' fails (and takes forever)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Daniel Johnson wrote:

> This has been a problem on my end for at least the last ten releases. 
> If I want to generate HTML documentation, I have to "make web", let it
> fail, "make web", let it fail again, etc.  Eventually it'll finish cleanly.
>
> I also noticed that make web fails if I have the MS Mincho font
> installed on my Gentoo box.  Since this font attempts to cover a great
> portion of the defined Unicode universe, I suspect that Lilypond is
> trying to use it for some symbol for which Emmentaler is the desired
> font.  Next time I generate the documentation, I'll re-install MS Mincho
> first and send in a report if the build fails again.

You're probably  running GUILE 1.6 which barfs when the entire mincho 
font is dumped as a string. GUILE 1.6 has a length limit of 16mb on strings.

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