Linking to sun's jdk 1.5 instead of java-gcj solves this problem.
(Forrest works correctly with java 1.5).
If you link the java5.home to java1.6 you might face compilation issues again.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:20 PM, john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Strangely I get a out of memory exception while building hadoop from source.
> I have 2gigs of ram and I've tried building it from both eclipse and
> commandline
>
> http://pastebin.com/9pcHg1P9 is the full stack trace. Can anyone help me out
> on this?
>
> Thanks,
> John Smith
>

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