On Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with 1 GB RAM, I'm getting OOM error toward the end of building Racket, during the docs:
Racket virtual machine has run out of memory; aborting 1. Is this normal/expected, with only 1 GB? 2. I thought there was a flag or make target to build _without_ building docs. Maybe that was the old build system. Anyway I can't find it in README.txt. Is there such an option, these days? p.s. Elided output to show how far it gets before erroring: ~/src/plt/racket$ make if [ "" = "" ] ; \ then make plain-in-place PKGS="main-distribution plt-services" ; \ else make cpus-in-place PKGS="main-distribution plt-services" ; fi make[1]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket' make base make[2]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket' mkdir -p build/config echo '#hash((links-search-files . ()))' > build/config/config.rktd mkdir -p racket/src/build make racket/src/build/Makefile make[3]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket' make[3]: `racket/src/build/Makefile' is up to date. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket' cd racket/src/build; make reconfigure make[3]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build' make Makefile make[4]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build' make[4]: `Makefile' is up to date. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build' cd racket/src/build; make SELF_RACKET_FLAGS="-G `cd ../../../build/config; pwd`" make[3]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build' make 3m make[4]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build' cd racket; make 3m make[5]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build/racket' make cgc make[6]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build/racket' make common make[7]: Entering directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket/racket/src/build/racket' ... many many lines ... raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/html-doc/html/html.scrbl raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/images-doc/images/scribblings/images.scrbl raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/racket-doc/scribblings/inside/inside.scrbl raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/racket-doc/json/json.scrbl raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/lazy/lazy.scrbl raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/racket-index/scribblings/main/user/local-redirect.scrbl raco setup: rendering: <pkgs>/macro-debugger/macro-debugger/macro-debugger.scrbl Racket virtual machine has run out of memory; aborting make[1]: *** [plain-in-place] Aborted make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/greg/src/plt/racket' make: *** [in-place] Error 2 _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev