lynx-dev bloating binaries (was clue)

[Philip Webb]

990223 Henry Nelson wrote: 
> ALL recent "features" should be off by default.
> Definitely, all "features" should have compiletime options.
> When something can't be turned off, it requires delving into the code.

agreed here: have there been exceptions to this?
 
> Lynx is getting way too big.
> Lynx is no longer a valid option on a limited resource machine.
> The real problem is that the code only grows.  In the last two years,
> I don't recall the binary being smaller than the previous one.
 
my 2-8-1rel.1 binary is  1,45 M , 2-8-2dev.17 is  1,53 M  (both stripped).
i don't understand why, tho' it seems to be chartrans stuff.

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