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Re: redundant DOC files


From: Leo
Subject: Re: redundant DOC files
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:31:27 +0100
User-agent: No Gnus v0.6, Emacs/23.0.0.4 (2007-03-28), Fedora 6 gnu/linux

On 2007-01-22, Miles Bader said:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>> The point is if I have 50 builds then the DOC-* will take up more
>>> than 100M disk space.
>>
>> Whoever cares about 100MB of disk space these days? ;-)
>
> If you _do_ care about 100MB of disk space (I do, as I have a small
> disk), you could use the "emacs/quick-install-emacs" script to
> install Emacs, instead of "make install".  It hard links installed
> files instead of copying them (which allows much faster re-installs
> as well as saving space), and will optionally purge old cruft like
> DOC-*.  To do this you should give it the "-p" (--prune) option.
>
> -Miles

Does this script work with gawk? I don't have nawk in my system.

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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)





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