On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:25:10AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > This way we not only save the archive of 4 copies of the identical > bytecode packages, but also have the added benefit of being able to have > either the bytecode or the native code package installed on arches which > support both. > > And we build the bytecode on a possibly faster box that what would have > been used for m68k for example.
And additionally, we can now strip the native code executables, gaining additional size reduction of the -native package. Note also that bytecode executables built without -custom will not get stripped by strip : $ ls -l fibo -rwxr-xr-x 1 luther luther 124555 sep 9 10:55 fibo $ file fibo fibo: a /usr/bin/ocamlrun script text executable $ strip fibo strip: fibo: Format de fichier non reconnu Friendly, Sven Luther
