Re: producing a self-standing program

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On 5 Sep 2012, at 15:53, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 5 September 2012 09:42, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 5 September 2012 07:04, Yury T. <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I'd want to run my program on 'foreign' cluster, on which I'm unsure I'd be
>>> able to permanently keep >1G of octave binaries, and in fact, I'm reluctant
>>> to undertake the compilation itself there.
>> 
>> You can build Octave in less than 1GB if you don't build with
>> debugging symbols. See the manual here
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Running-Configure-and-Make.html#Running-Configure-and-Make
>> 
>> Just pass the following options to configure  "CFLAGS=-O CXXFLAGS=-O
>> LDFLAGS=" Note that there's an error on the manul, it says that those
>> are for make (it's for configure).
> 
> You probably want -O2, not -O, since you will want to allow gcc to
> perform compilation optimisations.

IIRC compiling Octave with -O2 will produce broken binaries with gcc <= 4.2

> - Jordi G. H.
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