I've compiled nginx 1.3.11 on my RaspberryPI (512MB) running Debian Wheezy/ARM, and all appears to be quite okay, that is until nginx is getting fired up, then it's aborting with some error message.
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2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32149#0: using the "epoll" event method
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32149#0: counter: 40157080, 1
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32149#0: nginx/1.3.12
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32149#0: built by gcc 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14+rpi1)
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32149#0: OS: Linux 3.2.27+
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32149#0: sysctl(KERN_RTSIGMAX): 0
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32149#0: getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE): 1024:4096
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: write: 6, BED7FA58, 6, 0
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: setproctitle: "nginx: master process nginx"
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32151#0: start worker processes
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: channel 3:6
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32151#0: start worker process 32152
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: channel 7:8
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32151#0: start cache manager process 32153
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: pass channel s:1 pid:32153 fd:7 to s:0 pid:32152 fd:3
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: channel 9:10
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [notice] 32151#0: start cache loader process 32154
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: pass channel s:2 pid:32154 fd:9 to s:0 pid:32152 fd:3
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: pass channel s:2 pid:32154 fd:9 to s:1 pid:32153 fd:7
2013/02/09 19:39:17 [debug] 32151#0: sigsuspend
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [notice] 32151#0: signal 17 (SIGCHLD) received
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [alert] 32151#0: worker process 32152 exited on signal 11
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [alert] 32151#0: cache manager process 32153 exited on signal 11
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [alert] 32151#0: cache loader process 32154 exited on signal 11
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
2013/02/09 19:39:18 [debug] 32151#0: shmtx forced unlock
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'uname -a' results in
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Linux myhost 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l GNU/Linux
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'nginx -V' output
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TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx/nginx.lck --user=www --group=www --with-rtsig_module --with-select_module --with-poll_module --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_degradation_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_perl_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi --with-pcre --with-pcre-jit --with-debug --add-module=/data/src/nginx/modules/ngx_devel_kit --add-module=/data/src/nginx/modules/nginx-rtmp-module --add-module=/data/src/nginx/modules/lua-nginx-module --add-module=/data/src/nginx/modules/nginx-upload-progress-module --add-module=/data/src/nginx/modules/ngx_auto_lib
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