> 
> Whilst running make build, make complained a couple of times of not being
> able to allocate memory.  Then when I got to the man pages in libc groff 
> started to blow out with segmentation errors on anything but the smallest 
> input files.
> 
The memory problem may be due to a much-to-small limit.
Try to do unlimit datasize before.

The groff problem is a long-standing problem, groff can't be compiled
with -O. If you recompile without optimization it will work. I think
that you also must recompile libgroff without -O.

-- Ragge