From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Feb 24 16:38:42 1995
Subject: Re: large binary size for octave-1.1.1 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: Dutt dot Vinayak at mayo dot EDU
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 95 10:38:21 CST

vdp at us0 dot mayo dot EDU (Vinayak Dutt) wrote:

: the size for octave-1.1.1 on sun sparc 4.1.3 seems to be really
: huge: some 8mb+.  i think the size for 1.1.0 was around 2mb+ only. i
: had compiled with --enable-dld and --enable-lite-kernel.
: 
: is there anyway to reduce the size ? or am i doing something wrong
: here ? i had compiled with gcc-2.6 with sun f77 2.0.

Did you compile with -g?  The binary should shrink to about 2MB if you
strip it.

jwe