Re: [Corelinux-develop] Why is RPM dev package so much fatter than DEB?

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

Christophe Prud'homme wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > dunno, I have to check that
> that's strange they are really huge , I remember that both rpm and deb
> should have almost exactly the same files except a one or two minor files for
> distribution specific
> my first guess would be that debian is better than redhat :)
> but you gonna reject it so I'll look further

If it is so, than that would be fine, but I think you next quote is appropriate.

> do you have some specific compilation flags?
> what make the libs fatter is generally the debugging flags
> do you define CXXFLAGS in you environment variables?
> (both deb and rpm use the same flags otherwise, they are built using
> configure)
> I rebuild corelinux rpms on my computer to see if they have the same size as
> yours.

I usually:

1. ./autorun.sh
2. ./configure
3. make rpm

I am not at the machine to determine what is in there. If it is not obvious from
anything you can see I will check tonight.

BTW: libclfrmwrk builds like a charm

> C.