Some results from my 'stats' 'log':
Old values: edit() -> LFUN_EDIT 283 ./frontends/qt2/ui/moc 565 ./frontends/qt2/ui 246 ./frontends/qt2/moc 1283 ./frontends/qt2 93 ./frontends/gnome 44157 ./frontends/controllers 7414 ./frontends/xforms/forms 102028 ./frontends/xforms 159877 ./frontends 19005 ./graphics 2705 ./tex2lyx 14713 ./support 50741 ./insets 51682 ./mathed 431640 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/lyx/lyx-build-debug/src > ls -la lyx -rwxr-xr-x 1 poenitz users 82959400 2003-05-10 19:05 lyx RSS 226M --with-included-string 283 ./frontends/qt2/ui/moc 569 ./frontends/qt2/ui 246 ./frontends/qt2/moc 1287 ./frontends/qt2 93 ./frontends/gnome 41659 ./frontends/controllers 5642 ./frontends/xforms/forms 93614 ./frontends/xforms 147668 ./frontends 16362 ./graphics 1616 ./tex2lyx 12210 ./support 48851 ./insets 45285 ./mathed 395901 . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/lyx/lyx-build-debug-incstr/src > -rwxr-xr-x 1 poenitz users 77503118 2003-05-11 02:38 lyx RSS 199M, link time 2:50 boost::format to lstrings.h 283 ./frontends/qt2/ui/moc 569 ./frontends/qt2/ui 246 ./frontends/qt2/moc 1287 ./frontends/qt2 93 ./frontends/gnome 41131 ./frontends/controllers 5642 ./frontends/xforms/forms 92838 ./frontends/xforms 146360 ./frontends 16350 ./graphics 1616 ./tex2lyx 12166 ./support 48338 ./insets 45281 ./mathed 390930 . RSS 195M, link time 2:38 Yesterday's values: lyx-build-debug: > du . | grep -v .deps | grep -v .libs 287 ./frontends/qt2/ui/moc 577 ./frontends/qt2/ui 250 ./frontends/qt2/moc 1311 ./frontends/qt2 93 ./frontends/gnome 35961 ./frontends/controllers 8099 ./frontends/xforms/forms 92831 ./frontends/xforms 139918 ./frontends 14461 ./graphics 8525 ./tex2lyx 14332 ./support 41126 ./insets 40326 ./mathed 373957 . -rwxr-xr-x 1 poenitz users 73062026 2003-09-11 00:24 lyx-xforms -rwxr-xr-x 1 poenitz users 3194168 2003-09-11 01:21 lyx-xforms link RSS 181M, link time 2:39 lyx-build-debug-incstr: > du . | grep -v .deps | grep -v .libs 283 ./frontends/qt2/ui/moc 569 ./frontends/qt2/ui 246 ./frontends/qt2/moc 1287 ./frontends/qt2 93 ./frontends/gnome 35582 ./frontends/controllers 6263 ./frontends/xforms/forms 91292 ./frontends/xforms 138227 ./frontends 14737 ./graphics 3721 ./tex2lyx 13648 ./support 42923 ./insets 41252 ./mathed 368876 . ls -la lyx-xforms / stripped -rwxr-xr-x 1 poenitz users 72155254 2003-09-11 01:17 lyx-xforms -rwxr-xr-x 1 poenitz users 4189080 2003-09-11 01:22 lyx-xforms link RSS 180M, link time 2m41.030s So this looks as if after Angus' recent #include cleanup there is not much difference between --with and --without-included-strings anymore. [Note that '--with' does not contain 5MB for tex2lyx which does not fully compile] Can anybody reproduce this? If so, this might be the time to drop lyxstring... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)