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

[Daniel Johnson]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> David Bobroff wrote:
>
>>
>> [NB I recall that it was taking a Real Long Time to convert to PNG in
>> these last two instances (i.e. for mm-rests2.ly and multi-measure-rest-
>> center.ly).  Could the memory leak be leading to the failure?]
>
>
> Yes. Luckily, it only bites you if you have long lilypond-book
> documents. Still, I'm puzzled that we're seeing the problem only now,
> since the leak has been in Lily/GUILE for ages.
>
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.

--Daniel