Not sure if this is of any interest. Just been building v1.2.stable on a (small) ubuntu box. Would having only 512MB RAM cramp gcc's style? making all mod_flite making in ... making in include ... making in src ... making in src/audio ... making in src/utils ... making in src/regex ... making in src/hrg ... making in src/stats ... making in src/speech ... making in src/lexicon ... making in src/synth ... making in src/wavesynth ... making in src/cg ... making in lang ... making in lang/cmulex ... making in lang/usenglish ... making in lang/cmu_us_kal ... making in lang/cmu_time_awb ... making in lang/cmu_us_kal16 ... gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1) Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs> for instructions. make[8]: *** [../../build/x86_64-linux-gnu/obj/lang/cmu_us_kal16/cmu_us_kal16_res.o] Error 4 make[7]: *** [../build/x86_64-linux-gnu/obj/lang/.make_build_dirs] Error 2 make[6]: *** [build/x86_64-linux-gnu/obj//.make_build_dirs] Error 2 make[5]: *** [/usr/local/src/freeswitch/libs/flite-1.5.4-current/build/libs/libflite_cmu_us_awb.a] Error 2 make[4]: *** [all] Error 1 make[3]: *** [mod_flite-all] Error 1 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2