Re: [Lib2geom-devel] linux build directory size, why 4.75 GB of st* files?

[Krzysztof K. <twe...@gm...>]

2012/9/13 mathog <ma...@ca...>:
> I just noticed today that the linux build directory is enormous, much,
> much larger than
> what is seen on windows:
>
> windows \c\progs\inkscape 552MB in 8597 files
> linux   /usr/local/src/inkscape_dev4 5895 MB in 6306 files
>
> Most of the difference is to be found in
> /usr/local/src/inkscape_dev4/src where there are
> 4.75 GB of storage in 31 st###### files.
>
> Presumably from the "st" these have something to do with the STL, but
> why only on Linux?  On
> both platforms it is using gcc compilers.  Is there maybe a compiler
> switch we could change
> in the linux build to eliminate these?

The build directory for out-of-tree builds takes up around 1.6 GB for
me (on Linux).
There is just one of those 'st' files, which takes up only 8 bytes.

Regards, Krzysztof