Compiling

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Ronny Hippler" <r11roadster at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 	I am having a problem compiling several programs. I keep getting the 
> error can't find expat, but I have it installed. pkg_info lists it and if I look in 
> /usr/local/include there is an expat.h file what am I missing? I am trying to 
> compile fontconfig 2.2.1, also while trying to compile  xmule 1.5.2 I get the 
> error:
> 
> make: can not allocate memory 
> 	Error code 1
> 
> Any ideas what could be causing this? I have 500megs ram and plenty of swap.

Is there anything more informative in the output before the errors you
showed?  Do you get the same errors from the different things you try
to compile, or are the symptoms (even slightly) different?  Do you
have process limits on memory (e.g., from login.conf: check the output
of limits(1) to be sure)?  Have you upgraded your base system?