Re: oct files on Mac OS X

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-Oct-2007, Jonathan Stickel wrote:

| Thomas Treichl wrote:
| > Jonathan Stickel schrieb:
| >> Out of curiosity, does someone know why oct files are an order of 
| >> magnitude larger in Mac OS X than in Linux?  For example,
| >>
| >> Gentoo linux, amd64, rand.oct:  48 kb
| >> Mac OS X, i386, rand.oct:  757 kb
| > 
| > Which distribution of Octave for Mac?
| > I can see in Octave.app with 'ls -l'
| > 
| >   50652 Sep 19 19:34 rand.oct
| > 
| > So 2kB more than on Linux - that's ok for me.
| > 
| > Thomas
| > 
| 
| I have octave installed via Fink.
| 
| I just noticed that liboctinterp.2.9.14.dylib is 160 MB on my Mac, while 
| it is 10 MB in Linux.  Other standard system libraries do not have 
| nearly as large a disparity.  I will check into this...

Are the files stripped?  What compiler options were used?  Debugging
symbols take up quite a bit of space for C++ code.  Strip them if you
like, but then you can't debug them if you need to without
rebuilding.

jwe