Here is the error message:

cc: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs> for instructions.
make: *** [ext/fileinfo/libmagic/apprentice.lo] Error 1

The very last thing make was processing is apprentice.lo which appears to be part of the image manipulation libraries (maybe?). I am using Ansible to provision my instance. It is a Digital Ocean single core 512MB VM.

I have been using vagrant / ansible with the same config locally for dev and it has compiled fine, this is the first cloud VM I am attempting to provision. The only difference is the base image for my DO server is coming from DO and for my local dev, I built my own Vagrant box via VirtualBox from a stock CentOS basic server install. I pull it down from my DropBox.

The problem has been experienced by others and reported as a php bug report

My php ansible role up to the error:

---
- name: Download php source
  get_url: url={{ php_source_url }} dest=/tmp
  register: get_url_result

- name: untar the source package
  command: tar -xvf php-{{ php_version }}.tar.gz chdir=/tmp
  when: get_url_result.changed or php_reinstall

- name: configure php 5.5
  command: >
    ./configure
    --prefix={{ php_prefix }}
    --with-config-file-path={{ php_config_file_path }}
    --enable-fpm
    --enable-ftp
    --enable-mbstring
    --enable-pdo
    --enable-soap
    --enable-sockets=shared
    --enable-zip
    --with-curl
    --with-fpm-group={{ nginx_group }}
    --with-fpm-user={{ nginx_user }}
    --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib64/
    --with-gd
    --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib64/
    --with-libdir=lib64
    --with-mcrypt
    --with-openssl
    --with-pdo-mysql
    --with-pear
    --with-readline
    --with-tidy
    --with-xsl
    --with-zlib
    --without-pdo-sqlite
    --without-sqlite3
    chdir=/tmp/php-{{ php_version }}
  when: get_url_result.changed or php_reinstall

- name: make clean when reinstalling
  command: make clean chdir=/tmp/php-{{ php_version }}
  when: php_reinstall

- name: make php
  command: make chdir=/tmp/php-{{ php_version }}
  when: get_url_result.changed or php_reinstall

Thanks in advance for any help. :)