Ceres make fails: "Makefile:138: recipe for target 'all' failed"

Question

I am trying to install Ceres on Ubuntu 16.04, following the installation guide on ceres website, however when the make command fails, showing the following error:

[ 94%] Built target helloworld_numeric_diff
[ 94%] Built target helloworld_analytic_diff
[ 95%] Built target curve_fitting
[ 95%] Built target circle_fit
[ 95%] Building CXX object examples/CMakeFiles/nist.dir/nist.cc.o
g++-5: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
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examples/CMakeFiles/nist.dir/build.make:62: recipe for target 'examples/CMakeFiles/nist.dir/nist.cc.o' failed
make[2]: *** [examples/CMakeFiles/nist.dir/nist.cc.o] Error 4
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:5885: recipe for target 'examples/CMakeFiles/nist.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [examples/CMakeFiles/nist.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:138: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

I am fairly new to Linux, so any help understanding what has gone wrong would be very appreciated.

Answer 1

“Killed” is what you usually see if something (external) sends SIGKILL to the compiler process. Either this is another user with permissions being bothered by this process or, more likely, the Linux OOM Killer evicting this process under memory pressure. I would suggest having a look at the memory consumption during compilation of “nist.cc”.