Compiling xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1 requires a ridiculous amount of memory. Tail end of emerge output: """ i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -o nsHtml5ElementName.o -c -I../../dist/system_wrappers -include ../../config/gcc_hidden.h -DMOZILLA_INTERNAL_API -D_IMPL_NS_COM -DEXPORT_XPT_API -DEXPORT_XPTC_API -D_IMPL_NS_COM_OBSOLETE -D_IMPL_NS_GFX -D_IMPL_NS_WIDGET -DIMPL_XREAPI -DIMPL_NS_NET -DIMPL_THEBES -DOSTYPE=\"Linux2.6\" -DOSARCH=Linux -I. -I. -I../../dist/include -I../../dist/include/nsprpub -I/usr/include/nspr -I/usr/include/nss -I./../../content/base/src -I/usr/include -fPIC -I/usr/include -fno-rtti -fno-handle-exceptions -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-long-long -march=pentium3 -pipe -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wno-return-type -w -fno-strict-aliasing -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -DNDEBUG -DTRIMMED -O2 -I/usr/include -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include ../../mozilla-config.h -Wp,-MD,.deps/nsHtml5ElementName.pp nsHtml5ElementName.cpp i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: -O1: linker input file unused because linking not done i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: --as-needed: linker input file unused because linking not done {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:8186: Warning: partial line at end of file ignored i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus) Please submit a full bug report. See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions. make[4]: *** [nsHtml5ElementName.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** Deleting file `nsHtml5ElementName.o' make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1/work/mozilla-1.9.2/parser/html' make[3]: *** [libs] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1/work/mozilla-1.9.2/parser' make[2]: *** [libs_tier_gecko] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1/work/mozilla-1.9.2' make[1]: *** [tier_gecko] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1/work/mozilla-1.9.2' make: *** [default] Error 2 * ERROR: net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1 failed: * emake failed * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 7812: Called _eapi2_src_compile * ebuild.sh, line 646: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "emake failed" * * If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1', * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1'. !!! When you file a bug report, please include the following information: GENTOO_VM=icedtea6-bin CLASSPATH="" JAVA_HOME="/opt/icedtea6-bin-1.8.0" JAVACFLAGS="-source 1.4 -target 1.4" COMPILER="" and of course, the output of emerge --info * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/net-libs:xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1:20100823-085115.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.8-r1/work/mozilla-1.9.2' """ $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 383964 202556 181408 0 27128 51824 -/+ buffers/cache: 123604 260360 Swap: 497972 101856 396116 $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.2.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.30gonz i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30gonz-i686-Pentium_III_-Katmai-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r2, 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1 sys-devel/gcc: 3.2.3-r1, 3.3.6-r1, 3.4.6-r2, 4.1.2, 4.2.4, 4.3.3-r2, 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r1, 2.2.6b sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned publicworks sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.kems.net" LANG="en_GB.utf8" LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage-crossdev /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/interactive-fiction /usr/local/portage/layman/games /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 caca cli cracklib crypt cxx dga directfb dri emacs encode fbcon fortran gatos gdbm gpm gtk guile iconv ipv6 jpeg mmx modules mozilla mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin oggvorbis opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session spell spl sse ssl svg svga sysfs tcpd theora unicode x86 xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mga vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xulrunner
Related bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332381
<assuming you toolchain is sane, and that the OOM is causing the ICE here>. Well, you don't have that much memory on this machine. And g++ requires lots of memory (particularly at linking state). As you already seems to compile with MAKEOPTS defaulted to -j1, it does not look like you can do much about it. Apart from compiling with all services/x11/etc shut off. I can be totally wrong though.
I see. Kernel messages did indicate that it was OOM triggering the kill. I tried with X and all other memory-hogging processes killed. I suppose this could be counted as 'not a bug', though it seems unreasonable to me. In any case, it is not strictly anything to do with gentoo. Another reason in favour of adding a binary xulrunner package, though.
never use -pipe on a low mem system. other than that, try increasing swap. in the end, there isnt much to be done other than "dont compile on low mem systems".
