Thank you for the quick reply.  Indeed, that appeared to be the issue.  For 
others who may see this (or similar) - 


My system has 1GB core and 1GB swap.  Today I did a clean boot and monitored 
the build.  I enabled the same options as yesterday, including the profiling. 


During the first part of the build, swap use maxed out about 750MB.  
Subsequently, the profile build ran its tests, closed and the new build 
continued.  Watching closely, I saw swap top out at 964MB and then fall off 
dramatically from that point. 


I know there was an IM application open last night as well as a few additional 
xterms.  I'm guessing those were enough to have pushed the swap usage just over 
1GB and thus crash the build. 


Of additional note: 


When I dropped out of X this morning and back to the regular console, I did see 
an out of memory error (or similar wording to that effect).  This did not show 
up while running via xterm and I never thought to look at any logs as the 
profiling build of firefox had been successful,

To give a cushion today (as the build takes forever), I prepared a temporary 
swapfile and enabled that while doing the build. 


Bottomline: you need just over 2GB to build the firefox 9 port successfully.



________________________________
 From: "f...@freebsd.org" <f...@freebsd.org>
To: birdf...@yahoo.com; f...@freebsd.org; ge...@freebsd.org 
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: ports/164594: www/firefox 9 is broken
 
Synopsis: www/firefox 9 is broken


This is usually an indication that you don't have enough free
memory/swap space to build firefox. How much memory does you system
have?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164594
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