Re: Octave is enormous

[Mike Miller]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, A S Hodel wrote:

> 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 .


I didn't post the original question but I just installed Octave 2.1.72 on 
two Linux machines last week and I have two rather different results.  In 
both cases I used --enable-shared, but not the other configure options. 
The octave binary was always small.  The volume of lib/octave-2.1.72 was 
374MB on an IA64 machine and 160MB on an i386 machine.  So there can be a 
lot of variation in space used, but I don't know what controls that 
variation.

Mike



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