Problem trying to build AOSP

[daniel jordan]

Hello, I'm new to the Android build world - hopefully I can get some decent pointers here.

I've been following the steps in http://source.android.com/source/building.html which have worked correctly up until "make" ... the last line is:

"make:  *** [kati.intermediate] Killed."

nothing indicates what the error is.  Could someone please point me to any corrections in the building.html guide and/or a build log which I'm guessing is present but I can't find on the local.

thanks,

-daniel

[Subodh Nijsure]

What platform, target, branch?

-Subodh

[daniel jordan]

ah, sorry for not putting that in.

I'm building on Ubuntu 14.04

I've installed everything listed on the source.googlesource.com/source/initializing.html

I've sync'd the master branch

I chosen several targets via lunch.  Eventually I'll be needing an ARM binary, but for now something for the emulator is good.

The build starts, I see Kati being invoked, a bunch of includes and some warnings.

Then a big pause ... I'm guessing Make/Kati are figuring out what to build.

then Make issues it's standard "failed" message.

I don't see any errors in the output.

I've been trying to find a build log, but haven't yet.

[Dan Willemsen]

That looks like kati is being killed for some reason. How much RAM/swap do you have? Is it possible that you're running out of memory?

There isn't a more detailed build log. It would be useful to have at least the last few lines before the killed message.

[daniel jordan]

I've got the output here:

pastebin.com/xrnD3jEL

It's really really terse.  In fact, I'd say it is obtuse.

If you can shed any light on it I'd really appreciate the input.

I posted yesterday that I thought the problem was not having updated Ubuntu ... turns out that didn't change anything.  the build ran longer, but not to completion.

[daniel jordan]

Turns out the problem was not having enough RAM.

I needed to have more than the default 2gb which VMWare created.  I increased the RAM to 4GB and the build ran correctly.

I think I also eventually needed more HD space, eventually increasing the HD size to 250GB.