Probably you have one of the memory hungry GCC version!<br><br>What does your gcc -version  show (gcc --version?)?<div><br></div><div>Any egcc on your system?</div><div><br></div><div>An alternative is to compile gambit with ./configure without --enable-single-host .</div>

<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Probably the step in the install instructions you got to was the compilation of std/string/digest.scm . This takes ~2GB RAM on a good GCC version, say 75GB on a bad.</div><div><br></div>

<div>Mikael<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/8/6 Dirk Theisen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:d.theisen@objectpark.org" target="_blank">d.theisen@objectpark.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi!<div><br><div><div>Am 06.08.2013 um 17:14 schrieb Mikael &lt;<a href="mailto:mikael.rcv@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikael.rcv@gmail.com</a>&gt;:</div><div class="im"><blockquote type="cite">

<span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none">For (import (std srfi/1)) see </span><a href="https://mercure.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2012-November/006188.html" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://mercure.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2012-November/006188.html</a><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none"> .</span></blockquote>

</div></div><div><br></div><div>I tried to install black hole from the latest release (0.2) from git here <a href="https://github.com/pereckerdal/blackhole/releases" target="_blank">https://github.com/pereckerdal/blackhole/releases</a>.</div>

<div><br></div><div>The compile script issued a warning and after 5 minutes and 5GB of real memory consumption of clang, I needed to stop the installation to prevent my system from running out of memory.</div><div><br></div>

<div>This is on latest OS X 10.8.</div><div><br></div><div>Trying Marcs tip now.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dirk</div><br>
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