Re: [guppi-list] New Guppi Snapshot

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

linas linas org writes:
> > Before compiling, the untarred Guppi source directory consumes 8.8mb.
> > After compiling, the Guppi directory (on my machine) grows to over
> > 200mb.  Start making room on your hard drive now.
> 
> Umm, is this kind of disk usage wanted or wise?  Seems to me like it
> could have the potential to turn a lot of people off.  Not having built
> guppi, I'll ask the dummy question:  what in the world is taking up all
> that space?  Can it be gotten rid of?
> 

Static and shared copies of all the libs that make up Guppi, with
debug symbols in each, most likely.

It won't be remotely so large when stripped. (Probably shouldn't
bother to build the static versions though; pass --disable-static to
configure.)

Havoc