Problems compiling GCC 3.4.3 and libgcj

Thu Mar 3 19:48:00 GMT 2005

> > 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