From help-request at octave dot org Sat Dec 31 10:54:43 2005 Subject: Octave is enormous From: "Otto Maddox" To: help at octave dot org Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:53:26 +0000 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. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------