Re: Questions

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 07:40:36AM +0200, Matthias Warkus wrote:
> Hi, here are some questions I asked myself today...
> 
> 1. Where's gnome-guile? cromagnon needs it, but any trace of it seems
>    to have disappeared. Do I need to get it off CVS? :-(
> 
> 2. Where can I get data files for GnomeScott? (Um, probably nowhere,
>    legally. Don't know why I ask.)
> 
> 3. How much of the stuff in a normal Gnome directory tree can be
>    stripped? It's OK to strip the executables, of course - stripping
>    libraries is a bad idea. But can one strip, f.ex., the Go/gEdit
>    plugins in $WHATEVER_THE_PREFIX/libexec?

Stripping libraries is OK. Of course backtraces will be less informative
that way.

> 
> 4. Which ones of the static libraries are actually needed? They
>    constitute a huge bulk, and apparently, they are almost never
>    compiled in anywhere. Is it safe to delete them or will anything
>    fail to build as a consequence?

I'm pretty sure it's safe to delete them, but I haven't tried it myself.
Or you can strip them.

Ronald