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Re: Octave is enormous
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Stefan van der Walt |
Subject: |
Re: Octave is enormous |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Jan 2006 00:49:26 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:53:26PM +0000, Otto Maddox wrote:
> I have mostly managed to get octave-2.1.72 compiled and installed as
> per my description in
> http://www.octave.org/mailing-lists/help-octave/2005/4691
>
> (Thankfully the Octave mailing lists are regenerated so frequently
> that I can refer to it so quickly. :-)
>
> The executable octave-2.1.72 is 222952484 bytes. That's over 220 MB.
> The whole installation is over 440 MB. The FAQ says it should be
> around 65 MB.
>
> Is this normal? How do I configure and rebuild octave to make it
> smaller?
Are your binaries stripped? In other words, if you run
strip liboctave.so
and
strip octave
do their sizes change?
Regards
Stéfan
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