obscure failures when RAM is low

[Daniel Pocock]

I recently had a report from a user that he was building one of my
projects, reSIProcate, on a machine with 512MB RAM and the builds were
failing without any clear error

He looked more closely and found it was exactly like the situation
described here:


http://www.ahwkong.com/post/2013/12/24/failed-at-unified-cpp-2/


Can this be handled any better by autotools or is it a g++ problem
exclusively?

Can the configure script check for sufficient RAM and disk space before
the build?

Regards,

Daniel