See bug #27508 (just note to get the friendly url here :)

How about running simply 'make test' ? In 5.2.4 there is no such make line you have pasted here..

Yeah, this error comes from 'make test'.  I just tried to make it easier for you. :)  I added -v to run-tests in Makefile.

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TEST /src/php-5.2.4/ext/standard/tests/file/bug27508.phpt
TEST 2718/3739 [ext/standard/tests/file/bug27508.phpt]
CONTENT_LENGTH  =
CONTENT_TYPE    =
PATH_TRANSLATED = /src/php-5.2.4/ext/standard/tests/file/bug27508.php
QUERY_STRING    =
REDIRECT_STATUS = 1
REQUEST_METHOD  = GET
SCRIPT_FILENAME = /src/php-5.2.4/ext/standard/tests/file/bug27508.php
HTTP_COOKIE     =
COMMAND /src/php-5.2.4/sapi/cli/php -c '/src/php-5.2.4/tmp-php.ini' -d "output_handler=" -d "open_basedir=" -d "safe_mode=0" -d "disable_functions=" -d "output_buffering=Off" -d "error_reporting=8191" -d "display_errors=1" -d "display_startup_errors=1" -d "log_errors=0" -d "html_errors=0" -d "track_errors=1" -d "report_memleaks=1" -d "report_zend_debug=0" -d "docref_root=" -d "docref_ext=.html" -d "error_prepend_string=" -d "error_append_string=" -d "auto_prepend_file=" -d "auto_append_file=" -d "magic_quotes_runtime=0" -d "extension_dir=/src/php-5.2.4/modules/" -d "extension=openssl.so" -d "extension=zlib.so" -d "extension=bcmath.so" -d "extension=bz2.so" -d "extension=calendar.so" -d "extension=ctype.so" -d "extension=dba.so" -d "extension=dom.so" -d "extension=exif.so" -d "extension=ftp.so" -d "extension=gd.so" -d "extension=gettext.so" -d "extension=gmp.so" -d "extension=hash.so" -d "extension=iconv.so" -d "extension=imap.so" -d "extension=json.so" -d "extension=ldap.so" -d "extension=mbstring.so" -d "extension=mcrypt.so" -d "extension=mhash.so" -d "extension=mime_magic.so" -d "extension=mysql.so" -d "extension=mysqli.so" -d "extension=ncurses.so" -d "extension=pcntl.so" -d "extension=pdo_sqlite.so" -d "extension=posix.so" -d "extension=pspell.so" -d "extension=readline.so" -d "extension=session.so" -d "extension=shmop.so" -d "extension=snmp.so" -d "extension=soap.so" -d "extension=sockets.so" -d "extension=sqlite.so" -d "extension=sysvmsg.so" -d "extension=sysvsem.so" -d "extension=sysvshm.so" -d "extension=tidy.so" -d "extension=wddx.so" -d "extension=xmlreader.so" -d "extension=xmlrpc.so" -d "extension=xmlwriter.so" -d "extension=xsl.so" -d "extension=zip.so" -d "session.auto_start=0" -d "tidy.clean_output=0" -d "zlib.output_compression=Off" -f "/src/php-5.2.4/ext/standard/tests/file/bug27508.php"  2>&1

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 170917888) (tried to allocate 166985750 bytes) in /src/php-5.2.4/run-tests.php on line 896
make: [test] Error 255 (ignored)

Why an earth are you building session as shared anyway..? (just curious since it doesn't make sense at all..)

Why not if sessions are not used?  I am just trying to build a 'minimal' php binary.

Anyway, building the session extension statically fixes the issue.

Thanks for your help.

I can not reproduce this. Please provide the shortest possible configure line you can still reproduce this with.

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