On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Sergey Ivanov wrote:

> Trying to build KDE I've encountered the next problem: it reports about
> exhausting virtual memory on compiling addressbook.cc in kdelibs-1.1.1/kab
> directory.

In bash (sh also?), do a
ulimit -d <some big number corresponding to your memory>
csh: see the csh man page on `limit'
ulimit -d 128000 helped me compile a number of programs. g77 seems to use 
a lot of memory, esp. with -O3...
Hope this helps,
Hans-CHristian