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RE: MXE-Octave: Duplicate files in Windows installer
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JohnD |
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RE: MXE-Octave: Duplicate files in Windows installer |
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Mon, 6 Aug 2018 13:17:05 -0400 |
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> The Windows installer seems to install the same files to lib64 and to lib.
> Actually a few files seem to be present in lib that are not installed in
> lib64. But there seems to be a copy of each file in lib64 also in lib.
> That accounts for approximately 400MB of files in total that are
duplicated.
> Is this necessary? Or can this be easily avoided?
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> Markus
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I believe they were needed in order to compile build-gcc for mingw, although
originally when trying to compile as multilib, which we aren't doing any
more, and so may not be necessary anymore
There is also a lib32 directory.
I think only the lib folder is needed