On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:37:56AM -0800, Iaroslav Tymchenko wrote: > I am trying to follow instructions that I've found on page: > http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/ > > 1. git clone git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git > 2. cd rakudo > 3. perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot > 4. make > > and at the end I have: > > The following step can take a long time, please be patient. > ./perl6 --setting=NULL --optimize=3 --target=pir > --output=src/gen/CORE.setting.pir src/gen/CORE.setting > Killed > make: *** [CORE.setting.pbc] Error 137 > > I tried to run: > perl ./Configure.pl --gen-parrot --gen-parrot-option=--optimize > but: Unknown option: gen-parrot-option > > Configuration: Ubuntu 11.04, kernel 3.0.0-15-generic, GCC 4.6.1, Perl 5.12.4.
I'm not intimately familiar with building Rakudo, but error 137 would be SIGKILL and a coredump. Couple that with the warning "can take a long time", and I wonder, did the Linux Out Of Memory killer kill the process? How much RAM does your Ubuntu machine have? And is there any swap configured? Nicholas Clark
