From 2c4feca17fa1918653b34b5a45bc40d0ca53220b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Allegretta Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:40:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] faq.html: Added section 3.6, reducing binary size git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano@466 35c25a1d-7b9e-4130-9fde-d3aeb78583b8 --- ChangeLog | 3 +++ faq.html | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index e1a75583..f3d1f078 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ CVS code - - configure.in: - Fix for _use_keypad check breaking slang support (Christian Weisgerber). +- faq.html: + - Added some info on making the binary smaller with the configure + script. - files.c: real_dir_from_tilde() - Oops, fix case where buf ="~", silly crash (bug discovered by diff --git a/faq.html b/faq.html index ca7f14b1..574bb276 100644 --- a/faq.html +++ b/faq.html @@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ THE HECK DO I DO NOW?
3.4. I get errors about 'bindtextdomain', 'gettext' and/or 'gettextdomain'.  What can I do about it?
3.5. Nano should automatically -run strip on the binary when installing it! +run strip on the binary when installing it! +
3.6. How can I make the +executable smaller? This is too bloated!

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@@ -310,7 +312,8 @@ try this:

(again, where x.y.z is the version number in question).  Then you need to run configure with any options you might want (if any).

The average case is this: -

./configure +

cd nano-x.y.z/ +
./configure
make
make install (as root, of course) @@ -340,8 +343,31 @@ run strip on the binary when installing it! make install-strip. The default make install does not, and will not, run strip automatically. -

-

+

+ +3.6. How can I make the executable smaller? This is too +bloated!

+ +
Actually, there are several parts of the +editor that can be disabled. You can pass arguments to the +configure script that disable certain features. Here's a brief +list: +
+--disable-tabcomp       Disables tab completion code for a smaller binary
+--disable-justify       Disable justify/unjustify function
+--disable-speller       Disables spell checker function
+--disable-help          Disables help function (^G)
+--disable-browser       Disables mini file browser
+

+There's also the --enable-tiny option which disabled everything +above, as well as some larger chunks of the program (like the marker code +that you use Control-^ to select with). Also, if you know you aren't +going to be using other languages you can use --disable-nls to +disable internationalization and save a few K to a few dozen K depending +on if you have locale support on your system. And finally there's always +good old strip to strip all debugging code and code that exists in +libraries on your system. +

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