> I am trying to get GCC 3.4.3 compiled into a relatively small >
footprint (< 200 Mb), so I can use it on my targets. I only want >
c, c++ and java installed. I downloaded the gcc-core .tar and ran >
the make and make install on that and successfully installed it on >
my target machine, taking up approximately 40MB. When I build the >
core along with c++ and java, my libraries such as libgcj.a come >
out to be over 100MB! Compared to a 20MB libgcj on my Fedora 3 >
machines.
Should you instead look at the size of libgcj.so?
This is probably way smaller than the .a-file...
And as Andrew suggests - strip it - it will shrink to 1/3 of the size...
--disable-multilib is a good idea.
What does this actually do?