big .oct files with v3.0.1from Debian

[Michael Creel]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2008, 09:50 +0200 schrieb Michael Creel:
> > I'm seeing that .oct files made using  mkoctfile from Octave v3.0.1
> > from Debian testing (package version octave3.0.1-3) are much larger
> > than they were about 2 weeks ago (package version octave3.0.1-2). For
> > example, MPI_Unpack.oct was 151K  and is now 955K. Does anyone know
> > the cause of this? Something to do with debug symbols not having been
> > stripped, perhaps?
>
> Ehm, you are probably better off asking us directly at
> pkg-octave-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> and
> $ file MPI_Unpack.oct
> should be helpful.
>
> But apart from that, your observation is probably correct. The -3
> package introduced a -dgb package which you probably have installed. So
> your .oct files might include debug information now that wasn't
> available earlier. If you don't want this, have a look at mkoctfile's
> --strip flag.
>
>        Thomas
>

Thanks. Sorry to ask on the wrong list, but I didn't have the address of the
right one handy and I was pretty sure the Debian packagers would see it
here. Laziness on my part. I didn't install the -dbg package, only octave3.0
and octave3.0-headers, so if octave3.0-dbg was installed, it came as a
dependency. Sorry, but I can't replicate the setup at the moment, the chroot
dir is no longer around. I'll post to the correct list in the future if I
can't figure it out.
Michael
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