seen with IcedTea 1.4.1 on ix86, works on amd64, works on ix86 using the Cacao JVM.

compile-core:
    [javac] Compiling 239 source files to /build/buildd/xom-1.1/build/classes
    [javac]
    [javac]
    [javac] The system is out of resources.
    [javac] Consult the following stack trace for details.
    [javac] java.lang.StackOverflowError
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Scanner.nextToken(Scanner.java:792)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term3(Parser.java:883)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term2(Parser.java:699)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term1(Parser.java:670)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term(Parser.java:626)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term(Parser.java:608)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.expression(Parser.java:598)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.arguments(Parser.java:1172)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.arguments(Parser.java:1187)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term3(Parser.java:1003)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term2(Parser.java:699)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term1(Parser.java:670)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term(Parser.java:626)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.term(Parser.java:608)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.blockStatements(Parser.java:1580)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.block(Parser.java:1497)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.block(Parser.java:1511)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.statement(Parser.java:1641)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.statement(Parser.java:1645)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.statement(Parser.java:1649)

    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.statement(Parser.java:1649)
    repeated some hundred times

    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.blockStatements(Parser.java:1534)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.block(Parser.java:1497)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.block(Parser.java:1511)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.methodDeclaratorRest(Parser.java:2566)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.classOrInterfaceBodyDeclaration(Parser.java:2515)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.classOrInterfaceBody(Parser.java:2442)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.classDeclaration(Parser.java:2287)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.classOrInterfaceOrEnumDeclaration(Parser.java:2225)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.typeDeclaration(Parser.java:2214)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.Parser.compilationUnit(Parser.java:2160)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.parse(JavaCompiler.java:523)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.parse(JavaCompiler.java:564)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.parseFiles(JavaCompiler.java:815)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:741)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:380)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:306)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:297)
    [javac] at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:82)
    [javac] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    [javac] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    [javac] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    [javac] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.Javac13.execute(Javac13.java:56)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:1065)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:882)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:288)
    [javac] at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source)
    [javac] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    [javac] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:357)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:385)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1337)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1306)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1189)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:758)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:179)
    [javac] at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:268)

BUILD FAILED
/build/buildd/xom-1.1/build.xml:201: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.