Dear Phil,
so I dug out my Nexus 9 tablet and tried to recompile gambit 4.8.5.
The procedure is a little more involved than I had remembered. I used the following commands to compile gambit:
termux-fix-shebang configure gsc-boot.unix install-sh relpath mkidirs TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp CONFIG_SHELL=$PREFIX/bin/sh CC=clang LIBS=-llog ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gambit-tmp make make install
Comments:
1.) You must update the shebang path in 5 files, not 2 as I had previously written. You can use the termux-fix-shebang utility to do this (as shown above). 2.) TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp is necessary as /tmp is not writeable for Termux apps. 3.) Recently Termux has switched to clang instead of gcc. Unfortunately on my tablet clang runs out of memory compiling gambit. I did not have this problem with gcc.
Nevertheless I hope this helps. Maybe clang is a little less memory hungry on your 32bit (ARM7) machine. If all fails, the GNUroot option may prove better for you. There you can simply "./configure; make; make install".
I wish you good luck. Do not hesitate to contact me, if I can be of further help.
Best regards,
Alexander