[tex-live] sparc solaris binaries etc.

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Mon Sep 20 22:36:53 CEST 2004


On Sep 19, 2004, at 20:20, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> look at sizes of binary sets:
>
> 12648   i386-freebsd4.8
> 13904   i386-openbsd3.3
> 14200   i386-solaris2.8
> 15052   win32-static
> 15068   i386-linux
> 16260   sparc64-linux
> 16968   x86_64-linux
> 18892   sparc-solaris2.8
> 22332   powerpc-aix4.3.3.0
> 26860   mips-irix6.5
> 37724   win32
> 48128   powerpc-darwin6.6
> 109312  alpha-linux

On Mac OS 10.2.8 (darwin 6.8) I get:
TL2003: 50MB
TL2004: 60MB
stripped:
TL2003: 37MB
TL2004: 41MB

If I look at pdfetex with otool, it turns out everything is linked in 
statically, except the system library. A shared library setup is 
dangerous for a system which is distributed as binaries, so I am 
somewhat reluctant to change this.

G

PS. bzipped, the binaries of TL2004 take 17MB.



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