Re: Lilypond 1.4.5 exits with value 11 while running make web-doc

[Mats Bengtsson]

> It looks like you get bitten by somthing that we've seen before, a
> small ulimit on the stack when running stuff from python.
> 
> Did we have a good fix for that?

The following patch sets the stack size to unlimited, which 
hopefully should help. 

  /Mats

diff -u scripts/ly2dvi.py~ scripts/ly2dvi.py
--- scripts/ly2dvi.py~  Tue Aug 14 18:45:44 2001
+++ scripts/ly2dvi.py   Tue Aug 21 00:02:44 2001
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 import operator
 import tempfile
 import traceback
+import resource
 
 datadir = '@datadir@'
 sys.path.append (datadir + '/python')
@@ -293,7 +294,10 @@
 
        Exit status of CMD
        """
-
+
+       # Attempt to fix problems with limited stack size set by Python!
+       # Sets unlimited stack size.
+       resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_STACK, (-1,-1))
        if verbose_p:
                progress (_ ("Invoking `%s\'") % cmd)