linux - compiling Linux kernel 3.10.10 with GRSecurity patch

Question

I'm having a problem compiling the Linux kernel 3.10.10 with GRSecurity patch under Lubuntu 13.04

These are the commands I use to compile:

make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version "grsec" kernel_image

All is working fine, until this error message is shown:

[...]
  AS      arch/x86/lib/putuser.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/rwlock.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/rwsem.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/string_32.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/strstr_32.o
  AS      arch/x86/lib/thunk_32.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/usercopy.o
  CC      arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.o
  AR      arch/x86/lib/lib.a
  LINK    vmlinux
  LD      vmlinux.o
ld: final link failed: Memory exhausted
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Fehler 1
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/usr/src/linux/linux-3.10.10'
make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Fehler 2

I found several tips that didn't help so far. Increasing the RAM to 4 GB lead to the same error.

Do you have an idea what I'm doing wrong ?

Thanks for your advise.

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System: Lubuntu 13.04
2GB RAM, 40 GB HD