[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5.0 questions

[Frank Warmerdam]

Roger Bivand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Two questions: first on the size of GDAL 1.5.0 binaries - on both Linux 
> (RHEL4
> i386) and Windows (MSYS/MinGW), the GDAL library libgdal.so.1.12.0 and
> respectively libgdal-1.dll are four times larger than those built on the 
> same
> platforms with the same configure options (Linux 5019970 : 22203698; 
> Windows
> 5279462 : 17919972). Have I missed a configure option or compile flag?

Roger,

Optimization and debugging selection changed significantly in 1.5.0.  You
are likely getting build options "-O2 -g" instead of the old default of
"-O2", and so your library has debug info.  Try:

export CXXFLAGS=-O2
./configure ...

> PS. The Gmane feed is still pointing at gdal-dev at lists.maptools.org.

I'm afraid that is beyond my control.

Best regards,
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