Re: Adding more widgets to gtk

[Owen Taylor <otaylor gtk org>]

Nimrod Zimerman <zimerman@earthling.net> writes:

> Hello.
> 
> A small issue that has not been mentioned, as far as I've seen.
> 
> As it is today, compiling gtk as a whole on a Linux system requires more
> than 25mb of free space (probably about 30mb-35mb). This might not seem too
> important to most of you out there, but it probably matters to some, and
> this is a fairly large penalty. Personally, I have to endlessly fight
> whenever I need to compile a new gtk, in order to free up the required space.
> 
> Adding additional widgets as additional library/libraries can improve the
> situation, by requiring less free space for independent compilations.
> 
> (Just imagine the horror I'm going through now, trying to compile gcc 2.8.1.
> It is huge, and I don't even have enough free space to extract the
> sources!).
> 
> Yes, I know HDs are cheap (they aren't, really. Not too cheap). Still.

If you configure GTK+ with

 CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" ./configure --disable-static

(I.e., no debugging information, and no static libraries), it
will take _much_ less space to compile. (Just under 10M total)

Just the --disable-static will cut the space approximately in
half, with no penalty for most people.

(This probably should be in the README)

Regards,
                                        Owen