From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jan  3 02:26:46 2006
Subject: Re: Octave is enormous
From: William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno <williampoetra at gmail dot com>
To: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>
Cc: A S Hodel <hodelas at mac dot com>, Otto Maddox <ottomaddox@fastmail.fm>,         help@octave.org
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 16:24:32 +0800

Here's my configure options: (I'm using Octave 2.9.4, so it might not
be a fair comparison)

CFLAGS="-O2" CXXFLAGS="-O2" FFLAGS="-O2" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--enable-shared \
--disable-static \
--enable-dl \
--enable-readline \
--disable-picky-flags \
--disable-nls \
--disable-rpath \
--with-zlib \
--with-blas=-lblas \
--with-lapack=-llapack

Then

make install

cd /usr/lib
ln -s octave-2.9.4/*.so .

cd /usr/bin
strip -g *

cd /usr/libexec/octave/2.9.4/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu
strip -g *

cd /usr/lib/octave-2.9.4
strip -g *.so

The resulting size is about 30 MB.

Then for octave-forge:

./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--with-ieee754

make
make install

cd /usr/libexec/octave/2.9.4/site/oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge
rm {bitand,bitmax,bitor,bitxor,builtin,cellfun,chol,deal,dispatch,dispatch_help,pcregexp,regexp,sort,struct}.oct

cd /usr/share/octave/2.9.4/site/m/octave-forge
rm cell/cell2mat.m
rm general/{bitcmp,bitset,bitget,bitshift,blkdiag,char,complex,double,fcnchk,isa,isequal,isunix,ndims,unix}.m
rm miscellaneous/{inline,test_inline_1}.m
rm plot/orient.m
rm strings/{cellstr,str2double,strcmpi,strfind,strmatch,strncmp}.m
rm set/{ismember,setdiff,unique}.m
rm struct/{fieldnames,isfield,rmfield,struct}.m

cd /usr/libexec/octave/2.9.4/site
cd exec/i686-pc-linux-gnu
strip -g aurecord
cd ../..
cd oct/i686-pc-linux-gnu/octave-forge
strip -g *
cd ../../..

The resulting size is about 10 MB.


So the total size is about 40 MB (compare that to ~2GB for Matlab). My
system is:

william at darkstar:~$ uname -a
Linux darkstar 2.4.32 #1 Sun Dec 25 01:17:05 CST 2005 i686 unknown
unknown GNU/Linux
william at darkstar:~$ gcc -dumpversion
3.4.5



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