Armin K. wrote:
> On 05/13/2012 10:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 05/13/2012 09:55 PM, Andrew Benton wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:13:02 +0100
>>>> DJ Lucas<d...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Actually, I've been thinking a bit more on this one. As a compromise, we
>>>>> could probably still get rid of the XUL Runner page and use only the
>>>>> Firefox page to first build XUL Runner, and then Firefox in a separate
>>>>> build directory from only the Firefox source tarball. This is the way
>>>>> Firefox should actually be built anyway for our purposes. Without the
>>>>> dev libs, a user cannot build browser extensions from source (still
>>>>> ignoring the fact that the build tree needs to kept around). The FF
>>>>> portion of the build should take< 0.1 SBU. The reason it is not done
>>>>> that way by default is that the Mozilla devs choose not to cater to
>>>>> developers, but rather end users...understandable give the huge Windows
>>>>> target, but a minor PITA for us and a source of mild disagreement.
>>>>> Anybody think this is a bad compromise?
>>>> Yes, I think it's stupid to make people install half a gigabyte of
>>>> files just to get a browser. Firefox works fine with 31 megabytes of
>>>> files. Only people who want to make the java plugin will benefit from
>>>> the extra half a gigabyte. It is years since I've installed java.
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>> Half a gigabyte?
>>>
>>> 29M /usr/lib/xulrunner
>>> 3.6M /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel
>>> 24M /usr/include/xulrunner
>>> 6.8M /usr/share/idl/xulrunner
>>> 6.8M /usr/lib/firefox
>>>
>>> About 70 MB when using Firefox with system Xulrunner.
>> The build size is pretty big and /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-12.0 is pretty big
>> for me.
>>
>> $ find /usr -type d -name xulrunner\* -exec du -sh {} \;
>> 2.4G /usr/src/firefox/mozilla-release/xulrunner-build-dir
>> 32M /usr/src/firefox/mozilla-release/xulrunner-build-dir/dist/xulrunner
>> 1.4M /usr/src/firefox/mozilla-release/xulrunner-build-dir/xulrunner
>> 2.2M /usr/src/firefox/mozilla-release/xulrunner
>> 45M /usr/src/xulrunner
>> 6.8M /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-12.0
>> 27M /usr/include/xulrunner-12.0
>> 475M /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-12.0
>> 32M /usr/lib/xulrunner-12.0
>>
>> Most of this is in /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-12.0/sdk/lib/libxul.so
>>
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 463M May 13 13:45 libxul.so, but stripping it gets it
>> down to 24M.
>>
>> -- Bruce
>>
>
> Use
>
> ac_add_options --enable-optimize
> ac_add_options --enable-strip
> ac_add_options --enable-install-strip
> ac_add_options --disable-tests
> ac_add_options --disable-mochitest
> ac_add_options --disable-debug
>
> in .mozconfig.
>
> Yes, build size is pretty big, especially with debugging symbols enabled.
I also found --disable-debug-symbols which seems to build without -g. I'm
checking now, but it takes a while.
-- Bruce
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