error building lxml.etree

[Robin Becker]

I'm trying to build a bunch of extensions in a 2.7 virtual environment on a 
centos 7 VM. I don't know centos very well and I understand centos 7 is quite new

> building 'lxml.etree' extension
>
> creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7
>
> creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src
>
> creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml
>
> gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4       -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/home/rptlab/website/xxx/xxx_0/build/lxml/src/lxml/includes -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml.etree.o -w
>
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>
> {standard input}:1858223: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.'
>
> gcc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1)
>
> Please submit a full bug report,
>
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
>
> See <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions.
>
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 4


uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-123.6.3.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 6 21:12:36 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux




gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16)
> Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I do have the various devel rpms installed so far as I can tell.

Has anyone else seen this error? It's entirely possible that it might be I don't 
have enough memory or something, lxml builds almost always take a long time.
-- 
Robin Becker