llvm/clang compile error with Memory exhausted

Question

I am trying to build the latest llvm/clang code on my ubuntu 14.04 vm, which has 2GB memory.

What I did is a normal configure/make procedure, without any parameters to t

Answer 1

Another consideration: If you have Make running parallel jobs (e.g., make -j8), the concurrently executing jobs may require too much memory.

Answer 2

You need to do one of the following:

1. Add more RAM to your VM, or
2. Use gold instead of ld as a linker, or
3. Build Release(-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release), not Debug build