[llvm-dev] LLVM-4.0.1 build problem on Linux

[Kevin Choi via llvm-dev]

Try increasing swap size if all else fails and you still see maxed memory
usage in top, htop.

Just my 2c,
Kevin

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that your linker was killed during its process, likely because
> out-of-memory. Here are a few tips:
>
> - Are you building in parallel? One thing would be to reduce the
> parallelism level.
> - By default linux distribution are using the bfd linker, try to switch to
> gold instead (cmake -DLLVM_USE_LINKER=gold) it is usually a lot more
> performant.
> - Build with optimization and without debug info: cmake
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release.
>
> Hope this'll help!
>
> --
> Mehdi
>
> 2017-08-11 9:14 GMT-07:00 Adrian Victor Crisciu via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to build LLVM 4.0.1 on a Slackware Linux box with 3 GB of RAM
>> using gcc-7.1.0. Near the end of the build process, I hit the following
>> error:
>>
>> [ 89%] Linking CXX shared library ../../lib/libLTO.so
>>
>> collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
>> compilation terminated.
>> tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/build.make:269: recipe for target
>> 'lib/libLTO.so.4.0.1'
>> failed
>> make[2]: *** [lib/libLTO.so.4.0.1] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** Deleting file 'lib/libLTO.so.4.0.1'
>> CMakeFiles/Makefile2:13932: recipe for target
>> 'tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/all'
>> failed
>> make[1]: *** [tools/lto/CMakeFiles/LTO.dir/all] Error 2
>> Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this problem?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your time!
>> Adrian Crisciu
>>
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