It turned out that my system really runs out of memory (2Gb without
swap is not enough, make process takes more than 1Gb).
After creating swap partition everything works as expected.

Thank you for quick reply and for your help.

Iaroslav Tymchenko

2012/1/30 Nicholas Clark via RT <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org>:
> 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
>
>

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