[GRASS5] [bug #2322] (grass) Grass makes HUGE binaries

[Paul Kelly via RT]

This is because 5.0 compiles the internal GRASS libraries statically by 
default. So does 5.3, but if you add the configure options
'--enable-gmake=no --enable-shared=yes' in 5.3 then it will compile with 
shared libraries and be a lot smaller.

Note than you can/should also run make strip in 5.0 and 5.3 after compiling 
to strip debugging symbols from the executable files (or you can pass CFLAGS 
to the configure script to stop debugging symbols being added, if you know 
what you're doing).

The files in grass5/bin are all hardlinks to the same file so they don't take 
up any extra space. The files in etc/bin/cmd and etc/bin/inter can all be 
stripped.

It should be probably around 100MB after stripping, depending on your 
platform. But if you try shared libraries in 5.3 it will be much smaller 
still.

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