On 11 January 2018 at 18:55, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Ross Burton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > gettext has optional dependencies on libxml2, glib, libcroco and > libunistring. > > If they're not available then gettext will use internal copies, but it > can also > > use system libraries. > > > > For gettext-native and nativesdk-gettext continue to use the internal > copies to > > reduce the dependencies, but for target use the system shared libraries. > > > > Do we get any reduction in size ? if yes how much, not sure whats the > defaults > generally used by other distributions but it would nice to be using > the default config > options for best results.
When using the system shared libraries the gettext package is about a megabyte smaller from memory, but obviously it has more deps (which is why I left it as a packageconfig). For native, circular dependencies mean we can't use system libraries anyway. Ross
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