building error on xmule

[Lowell Gilbert]

Márcio Conceição Goulart <goulartpel at terra.com.br> writes:

> I tried to compile xmule-1.6.1 from the source and get this error:
> 
> make: Cannot allocate memory
> *** Error code 1
> Stop in /usr/home/marcio/downloads/pkgs/xmule/xmule-1.6.1/src.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop in /usr/home/marcio/downloads/pkgs/xmule/xmule-1.6.1.
> *** Error code 1
> Stop in /usr/home/marcio/downloads/pkgs/xmule/xmule-1.6.1.
> 
> I've never saw this kind of error "Cannot allocate memory". I closed
> all other aplications, including X11 and i got the same error again.
> Does anyone possibly knows what can it be?

The makefile is designed for Gnu make, not BSD make.

Use the ports system; it handles these portability problems for you.  
There is a port for xmule, and it already knows to use gmake.

> sorry for my bad english.

It wasn't evident from your message...