John Wiegley <[email protected]> writes: > Matt Lundin <[email protected]> writes: > >> With recent updates from the git repository and the latest versions of >> dependencies, I've found that the size of the compiled ledger binary and >> libraries has dramatically increased. >> >> 1. A ledger I built in early April with boost 1.41, gcc 4.4, and mpfr >> 4.2.2 took up 53 MB of space. >> >> 2. Today, I built ledger-git with boost 1.43, gcc 4.5, and mpfr 3.0 and >> the resulting installation takes up 397 MB of space. > > I guess there's no way to build the latest sources with the earlier > libraries?
Not at the moment. Alas, I recently cleared out my cached gcc 4.4 packages. > My guess is that gcc 4.5 has changed the way it generates debug > information. I think this is the root of the problem. I just build with ./acprep opt instead of ./acprep debug and the resulting installation weighed in at 37 MB. Thanks for the tip. > I've actually removed some of the things that were slowing down the Ledger > build, like archive.cc. Thanks for this and, once again, for the best personal finance tool I've ever used! Best, Matt
