On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 10:58:56AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote: > > On 4/9/20 6:23 AM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I noticed that I do get quite different build sizes for thunderbird than > > other maintainers, so I thought I will give a few infos about how I > > build thunderbird. Maybe this helps to find out what's going on here. > > > > > > > > du -hs /lgl-bld/thunderbird-68.7.0/ > > > > > > reports > > > > 4.2G /lgl-bld/thunderbird-68.7.0/ > > > > > > So, as I'm doing this with all other packages and never get a > > significant difference to what's in the book with other packages, I'm > > pretty sure that my counting isn't the problem. > > > Hi Tim, > > I noticed that you're measuring the install via a DESTDIR (otherwise you > wouldn't know what the installed files size is - although if you installed > it in /opt/thunderbird like I see below, it'd be easy to measure it the same > way). I know that cargo puts files in ~/.cargo, but I'm not sure how much of > a difference that makes and looking at my script, I normally don't measure > that either. See below on your package versions >
Just a side note that even after wiping ~/.cargo for a 1.42.0 rust build, and then building the current firefox-68 I didn't see any change in the overall size of ~/.cargo (measured with du -sch). > > In my mozconfig, I think I'm doing pretty standard stuff, too. These are > > my active ac_add_options: > > > > ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification > > ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio > > ac_add_options --enable-calendar > > ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite > > ac_add_options --with-system-libevent > > ac_add_options --with-system-nspr > > ac_add_options --with-system-nss > > ac_add_options --with-system-icu > > ac_add_options --prefix=/opt/thunderbird > > ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/mail > > ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter > > ac_add_options --disable-updater > > ac_add_options --disable-debug > > ac_add_options --disable-debug-symbols > > ac_add_options --disable-tests > > ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O2 > > ac_add_options --enable-strip > > ac_add_options --enable-install-strip > > ac_add_options --enable-official-branding > > ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi > > ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman > > ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 > > ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg > > ac_add_options --with-system-png > > ac_add_options --with-system-zlib > > > > > > > > So, what's left maybe is my toolchain, which might be a bit outdated: > > > > Name : rustc > > Version : 1.42.0-1 > > > > Name : gcc > > Version : 7.3.0-1 > > > > Name : clang > > Version : 5.0.1-1 > > > > I suppose I'm building with gcc and not clang, might that make such a > > huge difference in buildsize? > > > Although that might not make a difference in build size, what might is your > older package versions. What version of LFS are you building this on? The > rest of us use 9.1/SVN, and in our case, that means: > > > rustc-1.42.0 > > gcc-9.3.0 > > llvm-10.0.0 > > > Those packages can all contribute to a large difference in build size. Any > mismatches in node.js or cbindgen can cause limited problems as well. We've > been doing updates with GCC-9.3 and LLVM-10 in case we encounter any > compilation or runtime errors caused by newer compilers. We try to keep all > of the dependencies for a package on our system up to date before we update > a package as well. > For firefox-esr I've put the minimal required versions in the wiki because I know not everyone wants to do major updates every 4 or 6 weeks. They probably match the minimum versions in thunderbird. But I assumed everyone was using recent gcc and recent llvm. ĸen -- The beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest. -- du Garbandier -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
