QT compiled size

Matt Graham danceswithcrows at usa.net
Thu Nov 29 09:33:51 MST 2007


After a long battle with technology, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > I just got QT-4.3.2 and compiled it. Installed takes almost 1 GB of
> > space... !?! Is this right?
> Well  my Linux doesn't have QT because of some issue between Debian
> and TrollTech  over a patch but on OS X QT is only 6.9 MB so a gig
> seems excessive.

/usr/qt/3/ :    29M
/usr/lib/qt4/ : 23M

...Gentoo, no debug, all libs stripped.  The source tarball for qt-4.3.2 is 
42M and does take a long time to compile.  Building the docs and the messages 
for locales other than C could eat up a huge amount of disk space though.

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