[openvrml-develop] compiling openvrml 0.12.x using Red Hat 7.1 on Dell desktop

[Robert A. <rob...@bi...>]

Dear All,

I am currently unable to compile openvrml 0.12.x (I've tried several of
these) on my machine.  Braden McDaniel gave me some help so I could at
least get to the "make" stage, but now I'm facing (it seems) problems
due to lack of memory.  I don't have a really high-end computer
(especially for graphics work), but it's not ancient either, so I'm a
bit surprised and wondering whether I'm doing something wrong.

I managed to get openvrml-0.10.0 working, by the way.

The details are as follows.

I have a Dell desktop (OptiPlex GX150) with 750 Mhz processor (Pentium
III, I think), 250 MB of RAM and I have a linux swap partition of
approx  130 MB.  I'm running RH 7.1

I configure using:

./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/mozilla LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib/mozilla
-lm" --without-jdk --without-zlib

(I'm excluding jdk because I haven't yet been able to install it on the
system, and while I have the zlib-1.1.3-22 rpm installed, I get errors
during make relating to gzip, so I'm excluding that for now)

When I run make, everything goes OK until it gets to a part involving
"vrml97node" - it keeps on working at this point until the virtual
memory is exhausted (a few hours later) and I get the message:

Virtual memory exhausted!
make[4]: *** [vrml97node.lo] Error 1

My question is: am I doing something wrong, or is it simply not possible
to compile (and perhaps use) openvrml 0.12.x without more memory?  What
should be the minimum RAM and virtual memory required to get this to
compile?

Thanks in anticipation,

Robert

PS - I tried to compile on another machine with approx 144 meg ram, but
half a gig of swap space and it similarly ran out of virtual memory.