gcc - Why is the linker terminating on me? when i build CLang

Question

I am using opensuse, specific the variant on mono's website when you click vmware

I get this error. Does anyone know how i might fix it?

make[4]: Entering directory `/home/rupert/Desktop/llvm/tools/clang/tools/driver'
llvm[4]: Linking Debug+Asserts executable clang
collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed]
make[4]: *** [/home/rupert/Desktop/llvm/Debug+Asserts/bin/clang] Error 1

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Answer 1

Your virtual machine does not have enough memory to perform the linking phase. Linking is typical the most memory intensive part of a build since it's where all the object code comes together and is operated on as a whole.

If you can allocate more RAM to the VM then do that. Alternatively you could increase the amount of swap space. I am not that familiar with VMs but I imagine the virtual hard drive you set-up will have a swap partition. If you can make that bigger or allocate a second swap partition that would help.

Increasing the RAM, if only for the duration of your build, is the easiest thing to do though.