From help-request at octave dot org Sat Dec 31 11:30:05 2005 Subject: Re: Octave is enormous From: A S Hodel To: Otto Maddox Cc: help at octave dot org Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:27:40 -0600 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 . On Dec 31, 2005, at 10:53 AM, Otto Maddox wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------- > A S Hodel http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas hodelas at mac dot com ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------