# Building Racket-8.1 on Solaris 11.3 Sparc

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**Tags:** build\
**Created:** [June 25, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/building-racket-8-1-on-solaris-11-3-sparc/2981 "2024-06-25T21:55:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nemo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f07891/32.png) [@Nemo](https://racket.discourse.group/u/Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/building-racket-8-1-on-solaris-11-3-sparc/2981/1 "2024-06-25T21:55:59Z")

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Greetings.

I am trying to build Racket-8.1 (BC) on Solaris 11.3 Sparc. All goes well until the build reaches cify-startup.rkt. It finishes compiling this and then stops with the announcement "out of memory". The machine has 24GiB of memory. Assistance requested.

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