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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > > The GCC packages (with libc5) need around 15mb.
> > 
> > Why does SW71 need 120M to compile?  
> 
> Because of the huge size of glibc2.

Why is it so much larger?  Is it programming for more hardware?
The latest version of DJGPP can be run using only 15M of files (or maybe 
less).

> 
> > Are some of the files used only to compile for X 
> 
> No X files in that 120mb.  The files for compiling X
> go on top of that.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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