Philip Lamb wrote:
> On 5/10/2007, at 6:36 AM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>> I noticed that the library files of octave (2.9.14) are much larger, by
>> and order of magnitude, than those on Linux.  For example,
>> liboctinterp.2.9.14.dylib is 160 MB on my Mac, but only 10 MB on my
>> Linux system.
> 
> They are probably not being stripped during the install. install -s is 
> need to do stripping with Mac OS X's /usr/bin/install.
> To confirm this, try running strip -x /path/to/lib on the lib and see if 
> it shrinks. It is fine to do this on installed binaries from fink.
> 

Yep, stripping reduced the library file sizes of octave to more 
reasonable values.  Can stripping be added as part of the info file of 
octave in future versions?

Thanks,
Jonathan

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