I tried to recompile the gis library and I get the error:
...
r - OBJ/color_insrt.o
r - OBJ/color_invrt.o
r - OBJ/color_look.o
ar: malformed archive (at 250672)
/bin/sh: 7270 Memory fault
make: *** [/user/civeng/students/charnotw/grass4.1/src/libes/LIB/libgis.a] Error 139
can anyone give me a clue
cheers Tom 
Tom Charnock
Dept Civil Engineering
Aston University
Birmingham B4 7ET UK
charnotw@sun.aston.ac.uk