... Bootstrapping Ant Distribution ... Compiling Ant Classes Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for code cache ... Failed compiling Ant classes ! Bootstrap FAILED !!! ERROR: dev-java/ant-core-1.6.5-r14 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 4780: Called src_compile ant-core-1.6.5-r14.ebuild, line 43: Called die !!! failed to build !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. !!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/ant-core-1.6.5-r14/temp/build.log'. !!! When you file a bug report, please include the following information: GENTOO_VM=blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 CLASSPATH="" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03" JAVACFLAGS="-source 1.4 -target 1.4" COMPILER="" and of course, the output of emerge --info