Compile problem on Redhat 8.4

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I am on a Redhat 8.4 system and installed rust 1.49.0 via system packages.

Creating a small project where the main.rc contains just a sample file from regex I get

error: could not compile `regex-syntax`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `rustc --crate-name regex_syntax --edition=2018 /home/manfred/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/regex-syntax-0.6.25/src/lib.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts --crate-type lib --emit=dep-info,metadata,link -C embed-bitcode=no -C debuginfo=2 --cfg 'feature="default"' --cfg 'feature="unicode"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-age"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-bool"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-case"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-gencat"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-perl"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-script"' --cfg 'feature="unicode-segment"' -C metadata=5bc564915a15aafc -C extra-filename=-5bc564915a15aafc --out-dir /home/manfred/vc/hello/target/debug/deps -L dependency=/home/manfred/vc/hello/target/debug/deps --cap-lints allow` (signal: 15, SIGTERM: termination signal)
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed

It is clear that this is no regex-syntax problem but presumably an environmental problem.

I am unable to find compiler error messages. Any idea how to find out why (where) the compile failed?

Thanks, Manfred

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I got no experience with this kinda error. Does regex-syntax have a build.rs file?

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Of course, in my sample project there is no build.rs . When cloning the regex repository there is only a bench/build.rs.

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Hi, I'm the RHEL maintainer for Rust. Can you share that small project somewhere so I can try to reproduce this?

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@cuviper

The problem is I don't see what's going wrong. Perhaps I have to install a whatever devel package in RHEL. Dunno.

I put it into a repository: Manfred Lotz / rust_redhat · GitLab

Thank for looking into this.

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That's strange, it works fine for me. I even tried it in a container to minimize dependencies -- starting with the ubi8 image, yum install git cargo, then I cloned and built your project just fine.

You didn't mention which architecture, but I'm using x86_64.

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Is this the first time you're trying, or did it work with previous versions?

Are you in a restricted environment somehow? SIGTERM usually comes from outside.

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This is x86_64.

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I should note that whatever support I may be able to provide here is informal. If you do have a Red Hat support contract, you may want to also reach out through those channels.

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I installed RHEL 8.4 x86_64 in a VM and I installed the following rust related packages

rust-std-static-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.x86_64
rust-toolset-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.x86_64
rust-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.x86_64
rust-analysis-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.x86_64
rust-debugger-common-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.noarch
rustfmt-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.x86_64
cargo-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.x86_64
rust-srpm-macros-5-2.el8.noarch
rust-lldb-1.49.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9446+1a463e08.noarch

Actually, I discovered the problem when trying to do cargo install rnr which failed because of regex-syntax. My hope was to see more, if I have a minimal project.

I am in a bash shell (no restrictions whatsoever). But I have to check memory of the VM. Perhaps the VM setting is too low. Will test and report back.

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Yes, indeed. The VM hadn't enough memory. Initially 1.5 GB were given, I changed to 2.5GB and now things are back to normal.

Sorry for the noise.

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No worries, I'm glad you solved it! I'm surprised that got SIGTERM instead of the usual SIGKILL for out-of-memory situations, but now I'll be aware of this possibility too.

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I wonder if it would be possible for cargo to detect that rustc got killed by the oom killer and display a nice message that the oom killer was invoked.

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Do you have earlyoom installed and running? I guess that does send SIGTERM first.

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I nice message would be fine, of course. Usually 1.5 (or even 2.5GB) is not common, it may happen in restriced environments.

In my case, for specific reasons, I have to install RHEL 8.4 on my laptop where I actually have 16GB. So, I did some tests to see what I will have in terms of software.

So, I am really happy to be able to use Rust which makes my daily life much easier as for instance I can install Rust software with cargo install when a system package is not available.

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Yes, earlyoom is installed

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