At work we are migrating to 64 bit machines so I did try to compile Ikarus on my box (last revision of Ikarus and my box is running Fedora Core 10). I get this strange "Cannot allocate memory" error. What do you need to investigate it further?
<snip> Making all in scheme make[2]: Entering directory `/home/micheles/packages/ikarus/scheme' echo '(define ikarus-version "0.0.3")' >ikarus.config.ss echo '(define ikarus-revision "1730")' >>ikarus.config.ss echo '(define ikarus-lib-dir "/usr/local/lib/ikarus")' >>ikarus.config.ss echo '(define target "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")' >>ikarus.config.ss echo '(define wordsize 8)' >>ikarus.config.ss ../src/ikarus -b ./ikarus.boot.8.prebuilt --r6rs-script makefile.ss Mapping (0x1ffcde8000 bytes) failed: Cannot allocate memory make[2]: *** [ikarus.boot] Error 255 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/micheles/packages/ikarus/scheme' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/micheles/packages/ikarus' make: *** [all] Error 2
