Elixir: Unicode.ex compile fails on armv71

[alisinabh]

Compile of unicode.ex fails on armv71 architecture.
I've build and installed Erlang 19.2 with kerl on it. erlang seems to work fine. elixir 1.1-dev installs fine from apt but 1.4.2 wont install because of following error in make command.

Environment

• Elixir & Erlang versions (elixir --version): Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.2] [source] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]
• Operating system: Linux FriendlyARM 3.4.39-h3 #24 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 4 15:23:58 CST 2017 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
• Hardware: NanoPi Neo 512mb

Current behavior

make[1]: Entering directory '/root/elixir-1.4/elixir-1.4.2'
==> unicode (compile)
Compiling unicode/unicode.ex (it's taking more than 5s)
Killed
Makefile:91: recipe for target 'lib/elixir/ebin/Elixir.String.Unicode.beam' failed
make[1]: * [lib/elixir/ebin/Elixir.String.Unicode.beam] Error 137
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/elixir-1.4/elixir-1.4.2'
Makefile:78: recipe for target 'lib/elixir/ebin/Elixir.Kernel.beam' failed
make: * [lib/elixir/ebin/Elixir.Kernel.beam] Error 2

[josevalim]

@alisinabh your OS is killing it because of lack of memory. The Unicode module requires loading large UTF tables into memory and optimizing those tables, there is not much we can do here, unfortunately. My suggestion is to use precompiled Elixir.

[alisinabh]

Thank you @josevalim