Re: else ladders practice

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.

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