Fl4m3Ph03n1x
Cannot install erlang 20.3.8.23
Background
I am trying to install erlang 20.3.8.23 via asdf on my droplet so I can use an elixir server for VIM (using ALE), but unfortunately the installation is failing.
Problem
10624 CC x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_driver.o
10625 CC x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_ps_init.o
10626 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_main.o
10627 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_impl.o
10628 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_helpers.o
10629 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_callback_impl.o
10630 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_return.o
10631 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_gl.o
10632 CXX x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_funcs.o
10633
10634 cc1plus: out of memory allocating 65536 bytes after a total of 364257280 bytes
10635 Makefile:156: recipe for target 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_funcs.o' failed
10636 make[3]: *** [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/wxe_funcs.o] Error 1
10637 make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_20.3.8.23/otp_src_20.3.8.23/lib/wx/c _src'
10638 /root/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_20.3.8.23/otp_src_20.3.8.23/make/otp_subdir.mk:29: recipe for ta rget 'opt' failed
10639 make[2]: *** [opt] Error 2
I understand from this log that this fails because my droplet doesn’t have enough memory. This is rather astonishing to me, as I have installed erlang 22.1 in the same machine and I didn’t have the same issue.
The other thing that jumps to my eye is the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Why can’t the install figure out what version of linux I have? (is this even important?)
My droplet has the following OS:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
It has 1GB of RAM and 25GB of disk.
How can I fix this issue?
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outlog
you can add swap so the server can “survive” the compile…
maybe erlang 22.1 is more effective during compile… did you install that using asdf as well?
after a total of 364257280 bytes
that is only ~350 mb - is something else using memory? (postgres? running beam?)
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NobbZ
I tried again, I resized my 5 USD droplet to a 10 USD one, booted into it, run some random commands, powered down and resized back to a 5 USD one…
And now I will destroy this testmachine again before I get billed to much for it.
And its just as I said, “Resize CPU and RAM only” has to be choosen. For me the option with disk size included was preselected.
Fl4m3Ph03n1x
I have resized my droplet and compiled erlang. It worked. My droplet now has 4gb of RAM and costs 4x as much.
Initially I didn’t think this was going to be an issue, after all, this is just a temporary scale up (I thought).
Unfortunately for me, as I later found out, I’m not able to downsize the droplet as the official article mentioned. I’m stuck with a droplet that will cost me 4x as much and the only thing I can do is to scp the files I want to a smaller instance, which is incredibly disappointing.
Doing so will not only take hours(which I pay for, obviously) it also requires me to know where asdf places all the releases and scp them manually.
In hindsight, resizing the droplet was a terrible mistake, I should have simply created a 3GB swap partition and let the SSD drive take the heat.
I hope my experience helps someone in the future!
NobbZ
The droplet in question is his “local” as the computer he got is suited even worse for developing elixir/Erlang. At least that’s how I understood this thread and an earlier one.
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