/usr/bin/ld out of memory (on ubuntu)

Wayne

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Dec 21, 2010, 5:41:31 AM12/21/10

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I ran into this error:

LINK(target) out/Debug/unit_tests

/usr/bin/ld: out of memory allocating 1000 bytes after a total of
937193472 bytes
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

the system is

$ uname -rv
2.6.32-26-generic-pae #48-Ubuntu SMP

Any ideas?

Thanks,
W. Shao

Mattias Nissler

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Dec 21, 2010, 5:49:06 AM12/21/10

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Get a 64 bit development environment :) Building on 32 bit systems is really not supported.

The problem is that the debug version of the unit_tests binary links big libraries that exhaust ld's address space. You can try and build only the chrome target, which might still be small enough for a 32 bit linker to handle.

Thanks,
W. Shao

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Evan Martin

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Dec 21, 2010, 12:24:05 PM12/21/10

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You are running out of memory, but I can still successfully build on a
32-bit machine.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxFasterBuilds lists some ideas.
Definitely try using gold.

Chris Evans

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Dec 21, 2010, 12:40:20 PM12/21/10

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Evan Martin <ev...@chromium.org> wrote:

You are running out of memory, but I can still successfully build on a
32-bit machine.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxFasterBuilds lists some ideas.
Definitely try using gold.

I was hitting this recently on 32-bit Linux. gold is a great start. To link the chrome binary itself in debug mode, I had to use the shared library build.