Internal Compiler error from HHVM build

Question

I have been trying to build hhvm from the AUR package using makepkg -s. The build is being performed on a pretty basic VM single core with 1GB of RAM (I mention this because I have read it may be solved by using more cores). I receive the following errors when he build is about 24% complete.

Scanning dependencies of target hphp_system
[ 24%] Building CXX object hphp/system/CMakeFiles/hphp_system.dir/class_map.cpp.o
c++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
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hphp/system/CMakeFiles/hphp_system.dir/build.make:117: recipe for target 'hphp/system/CMakeFiles/hphp_system.dir/class_map.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [hphp/system/CMakeFiles/hphp_system.dir/class_map.cpp.o] Error 4
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1213: recipe for target 'hphp/system/CMakeFiles/hphp_system.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [hphp/system/CMakeFiles/hphp_system.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:116: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

Can I fix this by using a different compiler or compiling directly instead of using PKGBUILD?

Answer 1

You ran out of memory. GCC needs a ton of RAM to compile HHVM since it uses lots of templates and meta programming.

Either increase the RAM on your VM or use the precompiled package.