Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: >m...@netbsd.org wrote: >>>> distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'cpp' terminated by signal 11 >>> Usually any GCC crashes on widely used architectures are running out of >>> RAM. >> See `dmesg |tail` to see some messages related to out-of-RAM GCC >> components killed. > >dmesg does not report anything suspect since boot.. and I did try to >rerun the build twice, so I should see two crashes. >The laptop has 4GB of ram and the same swap.... this even is enough to >build geck and more or less rust... what's with gobject?
What have you set MAKE_JOBS to ? >any better ideas? :-) What is wrong with the idea that you have run out of memory ? Other people can build gobject-introspection fine, me included.