The absence of <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">compile-file-to-target in your Gambit should mean that you&#39;re on a Gambit version older than ~8 months. To fix that please get a newer Gambit.</span><div>

<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Your GCC is version 4.2.1. That&#39;s a memory hogging GCC version. The 4.4, 4.6 and 4.7 series don&#39;t hog.</font></div>

<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Also, without replacing your GCC but accepting ~20% slower Gambit code execution, recompile your Gambit with:</font></div>

<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">./configure ; make; make install</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>

</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Note the absence of --enable-single-host on the ./configure clal.</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">This will make your Gambit compile string/digest.scm alright, as far as I remember. Anyhow getting a 4.4+ GCC might be a nicer idea.</font></div>

<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>Mikael</font></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/8/7 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, Mikael!<div><br><div><div class="im"><div>Am 06.08.2013 um 19:20 schrieb Mikael &lt;<a href="mailto:mikael.rcv@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikael.rcv@gmail.com</a>&gt;:</div>

</div><blockquote type="cite"><div 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">

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></blockquote><br></div><div><div>:blackhole theisen$ ./compile.sh </div>

<div>bh.scm:</div><div>*** WARNING -- &quot;bh#compile-file-to-target&quot; is not defined,</div><div>***            referenced in: (&quot;/usr/local/share/blackhole/bh.c&quot;)</div><div>bh_.c:</div><div>bh.c:</div><div>

*** INTERRUPTED IN ##thread-check-interrupts!</div><div><br></div></div>
This is when my machine (8 GB RAM) started to slow down to a crawl and I hit ctrl-c.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Dirk</div></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>