lighten the install, no .dump files

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

+1 to lightening our load, so we can deploy to embedded/mobile devices.

Duke

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Gerd Pokorra <gp at zimt.uni-siegen.de>wrote:

> I do not think that the static library needed to be installed by
> default. They are excluded from packaging by Fedora.
> I think stipping should be done by packaging or by the user.
>
> May be adding targets:
>
>  make install-static-lib
>  make strip
>
> or the configuration option:
>
>  perl Configure.pl --with-static
>
>
> Am Samstag, den 09.10.2010, 19:25 +0200 schrieb chromatic:
> > On Saturday 09 October 2010 at 07:57, Allison Randal wrote:
> >
> > > 9 MB of .dump files may not seem like much, until you realize that our
> > > total install size is 39 MB. Of the remaining bulk, we've got:
> > >
> > > - 14 MB for libparrot.a
> > > - 8 MB for libparrot.so.<version>
> > > - 4 MB for lib/parrot/<version>/library (PIR libraries, and their
> > > compiled PBC)
> > > - 2 MB for lib/parrot/<version>/tools (Perl libraries, Perl and PIR
> scripts)
> >
> > Several of the Perl libraries are (probably) unnecessary.  Do we also
> need to
> > install the static library?  Do those sizes count debugging symbols, or
> does
> > the install process strip them?
> >
> > -- c
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