QT compiled size

[Nathan Aubrey]

On Thursday 29 November 2007 09:33:51 Matt Graham wrote:
> 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.


Good point, I bet that is what it is! I don't need all the locales or language 
supports.. I'll look into that. Thank you!