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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: else ladders practice
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:32:06 -0800
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 24/11/2024 21:01, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> [...]
>>> Most of a gcc installation is hundreds of header and archive (.a)
>>> files for various libraries. There might be 32-bit and 64-bit
>>> versions. I understand that. But it also makes it hard to isolate the
>>> core compiler.
>> [...]
>> That doesn't agree with my observations.
>> Of course most of the headers and libraries are not part of gcc
>> itself.
>> As usual, you refer to the entire implementation as "gcc".
>> I've built gcc 14.2.0 and glibc 2.40 from source on Ubuntu 22.04.5,
>> installing each into a new directory.
>> The gcc installation is about 5.6 GB, reduced to about 1.9 GB if I
>> strip the executables.
>
> That sounds like a /very/ large size.  A quick check of the pre-build
> Debian package for gcc-14 is about 90 MB installed.  (That is for the
> C compiler - not binutils, or libraries.)  C++ adds another 50% to
> that. Are you including the build directories with all the object
> files too?

It is very large, partly because the executables are not stripped
(that's the default when building from source), and partly because I
configured it for multiple languages.  No cross-compilers.

No, I'm not including the build directories, just the directory
specified with "./configure --prefix=...".

I might try doing a stripped installation for C only, just to see how
big it is.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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