That's the problem. Size and Res in top went up to 41M, and the 
compile when through.

>  > I tried with COPTS=O0, but it still failed. I watched with top as it
>>  compiled. The SIZE and RES columns reached 32M (I have ~70M of RAM),
>>  but the Free Swap never dropped below 131M (I have 140M of swap).
>
>>  >Looks like you may have run out of memory (how much swap do you 
>>have?).  gcc
>>  >is known to take up oodles of memory when compiling C++.  (A LOT more than
>>  >you might imagine.  8-)
>
>Try unlimit before starting the compile - you have the memory, but the
>compiler is hitting the system's default limit (32 megs).
>
>John Klos
>Sixgirls Computing Labs


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