Problems compiling GCC 3.4.3 and libgcj

[Martin Egholm Nielsen]

>  > 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?

// Martin