Hi, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 09:07 +0200, Aewyn wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I need some help: my 2.1.4 gimp has an > > 55392K size binary. > > > > Of course I ./configure --enable-shared > > then --disable-static with the same result. > > Debugging symbols (built in by default) are a large part of that. > Running strip on the resulting binary reduces it to about 3M (from > memory). You could also investigate the 'make install-strip' option > (instead of 'make install') so that the binaries are stripped of > debugging symbols. > > Of course, for a 2.1 release, this is a little counter-productive, > since you will then not be able to file useful backtraces if things > go horribly wrong, etc. But if disk space is tight, that is one > option. Another option is to upgrade to gcc version 3.4 which produces considerably smaller binaries. My gimp-2.1 binary is 11MB unstripped. It used to be 55MB when I was using gcc version 3.3. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
