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Re: Size of m4 executable


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Size of m4 executable
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:34:01 -0600
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According to Santiago Vila on 4/5/2007 10:07 AM:
> Hello.
> 
> Is it normal/expected/ok that the size of m4 has grown more than 50%
> from 1.4.8 to 1.4.9?
> 
> On my architecture, the executable for version 1.4.8 had 109396 bytes,
> and the one for 1.4.9 will have 174184, more or less.

There were a lot of additions from the gnulib side of things in the past
few months.  Perhaps a diff between configure output will point to some of
the differences.  I like to run ./configure -C, then compare the resulting
config.cache between the two compiles.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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