The problem
You compile a program, e.g. with configure, rpmbuild or directly with make. The compilation aborts with the following error:
xgcc: Internal error: Killed (program cc1)The cause
During the compilation the program cc1 crashed. The cause of the crash can theoretically be of different types – a programming error in the compiler, for example. However, this latter is extremely rare. Much more common is a lack of main memory.
The solution
There are several ways of working around this problem:
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You give your computer more physical memory.
- You add additional swap space, e.g. in the form of a swap file.
- You compile on a computer with more memory.
- If your compilation computer is a Xen domain, you configure more memory for it.