>
> Notice that make complains about an out of memory condition; however,
> lint is failing before that already, without giving any hint about such
> an error... I wonder now if the lint error is related to the out of
> memory condition or if lint's complaints about the llib-lcrypto are
> substantial.
> Anybody else compiled a freshly checked out 1.5.1 lately, preferrably
> on a low resource machine such as a small VAX?
>
IMHO it should go on low resource machine if you have enough swap.

and check what ulimit -a says - it usually by default sets max
dataseg=real memory size.