Unable to manually compile Infer in a Linux laptop

[ghost]

Hello,

I try to manually compile Infer in my 3-year Linux laptop, which running Linux Mint 18.1, CPU Core i5-4210U (4 cores) and 12 GB of RAM, 40GB of the spare hard drive. The compilation always fails at building the facebook-clang-plugin. It happens to me 4, 5 times and below is the error message of the latest attempt. When it fails, I checked that there are still 14GB of the spare hard drive.

Could you please advise what is wrong? It often takes about 2 hours to compile facebook-clang-plugin before it fails like described. The commands I used are ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make

However, this problem doesn't occur when I compile Infer in a Virtualbox machine, in the other PC

Thank you!

[100%] Linking CXX shared library ../../../../lib/libclang.so
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Built target opt
make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
Scanning dependencies of target arcmt-test
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Building CXX object tools/clang/tools/arcmt-test/CMakeFiles/arcmt-test.dir/arcmt-test.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX executable ../../../../bin/arcmt-test
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Built target arcmt-test
make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
Scanning dependencies of target clang-check
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
make[3]: Entering directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Building CXX object tools/clang/tools/clang-check/CMakeFiles/clang-check.dir/ClangCheck.cpp.o
[100%] Linking CXX executable ../../../../bin/clang-check
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Built target llvm-dwp
collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
compilation terminated.
tools/clang/tools/driver/CMakeFiles/clang.dir/build.make:311: recipe for target 'bin/clang-4.0' failed
make[3]: *** [bin/clang-4.0] Error 1
make[3]: *** Deleting file 'bin/clang-4.0'
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:27048: recipe for target 'tools/clang/tools/driver/CMakeFiles/clang.dir/all' failed
make[2]: *** [tools/clang/tools/driver/CMakeFiles/clang.dir/all] Error 2
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Built target libclang
make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
[100%] Built target clang-check
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
Makefile:149: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build'
Makefile:150: recipe for target 'clang_setup' failed
make: *** [clang_setup] Error 2

[jvillard]

Looks like ld get OOM-killed:

collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]

That's a bit odd given your 12GB of RAM, but not impossible. Try using fewer cores. One way is to edit facebook-clang-plugins/clang/setup.sh and change line 132 to JOBS=1 (instead of JOBS="$(getconf ...)") (sorry, GitHub is acting up and I cannot link directly to the line at the moment).

A faster way if you still have the temp dir lying around is to attempt to finish the installation by hand:

cd /tmp/clang-setup.SBjcpY/build
make -j 1 install
cd /path/to/infer/facebook-clang-plugins/clang
# strip binaries to save space
find install/{bin,lib} -type f -exec strip -x \{\} \+
# record that the installation was successful
./setup.sh --only-record-install

Let me know if this helps.

[ghost]

Thank you so much for your suggestion. I am able to build both facebook-clang-plugins and infer from the scratch by changing the number of JOBS to 1 as you suggested.

The compilation took really a long time though, more or less 3 hours.

[jvillard]

Please reopen if there's still an issue here.