I updated my Mac OS X mlvm build (fastdebug enabled) and posted a tarball here: http://www.concord.org/~sbannasch/mlvm/java-1.7.0-internal-2010_07_26.tar.gz FYI: for Charlie. I'm getting 'Trace/BPT trap' errors running rake, gem, or jirb in JRuby. http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-4969