[cfe-dev] collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] clang

[Michael Kruse via cfe-dev]

There is currently a review going on to add mitigations to the
documentation: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75425

I asked the author to make one more simple change before I'd
accept/commit the change myself.

Michael

Am Mi., 25. März 2020 um 14:36 Uhr schrieb Robinson, Paul via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>
> The error message is typical of the ran-out-of-memory condition.
>
> It appears you are using ld as your linker? (it is the default on Ubuntu) Our usual next suggestion is to use gold or lld instead, as they consume less memory.  There are instructions on the web for making gold your default linker.
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> If that is not practical, the other suggestion is to reduce the number of threads (the -j option to make or ninja).  If you are doing a Debug build, likely you would need to use -j1.
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> Best regards,
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> --paulr
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> From: cfe-dev <cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> On Behalf Of suyash singh via cfe-dev
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 2:07 PM
> To: cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> Subject: [cfe-dev] collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] clang
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> I was building clang on Ubuntu 18.04
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> https://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html#build
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>
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> and got the error message
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> collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] clang
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>
>
> I have 8 GB ram
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> and increased the Linux swap to 40 GB but still same problem.
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> Full error message
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> collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
> compilation terminated.
> tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/build.make:270: recipe for target 'lib/libLTO.so.11git' failed
> make[2]: *** [lib/libLTO.so.11git] Error 1
> make[2]: *** Deleting file 'lib/libLTO.so.11git'
> CMakeFiles/Makefile2:23538: recipe for target 'tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/all' failed
> make[1]: *** [tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/all] Error 2
> Makefile:151: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
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