Re: [guppi-list] New Guppi Snapshot

[linas linas org]

It's been rumoured that Havoc Pennington said:
> 
> 
> 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.

That's still one heck of a lot of symbols.   Rivalling glibc in size.
I'm of the small-is-beutiful persuasion ... 

I guess what does really count is the installed size, not the
build-tree, and from other notes that seemd a lot more reasonable
(though still big).

--linas