Re: Octave is enormous

[A S Hodel]

Did you run the configure script with -enable-shared -enable-dl -- 
disable-static ?
My octave binary (2.1.71) is only 20K, since the bulk of Octave is  
distributed among shared libraries (.oct files), about 95.8 MB in  
folder /sw/lib/octave/2.1.71/oct .

On Dec 31, 2005, at 10:53 AM, 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?
>
> I read about the --enable-shared, --enable-dl and --enable-lite-kernel
> configure options, but I don't really understand what they do or
> whether they are suitable for this purpose.
>
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