Re: [Fresco-devel] huge so's: are they normal?

"Andy Sy" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:21:37 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.fresco.devel
Message-ID <017001c2e398$6e3dc030$0100a8c0@duron12>
> Nick Lewycky wrote:
> > Andy Sy wrote:
> 
> > > In Fresco M1, checking out the sizes of some of the so's in the
> > > Berlin/modules/ directory, a lot of the generated so's are huge.
> > > PSDrawingKit.so for example is 14MB in size even though the sources
> > > are quite small (around 20k).
> > 
> > That's abnormal. It's only 950k here. The largest is ToolKit.so, at 5.3Mb.
> > 
> > > Anyone know what's going on?
> > 
> > Not a clue. Is something being statically linked by accident? Something big?
> 
> You didn't configure with debugging enabled, did you? That might explain
> it, since the build bloats incredibly, or it did the last time I tried
> (and ran out of disk space on the system I was building on!)

Hmmm... this is exactly what happens although I never turned on
debug.  All I did was ./configure --prefix=/usr/local.
Could it have something to do with omniORB-4.0.0?  My omniORB
.so's and .a's are 2-3MB in size - is this typical?