Re: oct files on Mac OS X

[Jonathan Stickel]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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.

You are right again!  Stripping the libraries with "strip -x" reduces 
the file sizes to more reasonable values.  I don't know why the fink 
installation doesn't strip automatically, but I am looking into it.

Thanks,
Jonathan