that's... disturbing

Thu Jul 27 14:24:00 GMT 2000

Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

| Something I just noticed; here's a sorted-by-size list of the configure
| scripts in the GCC tree:
| 
| -rwxr-xr-x   545816 Jul 26 17:34 ./libstdc++-v3/configure
| -rwxr-xr--   273539 Jul 20 16:24 ./gcc/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   126159 May 11 16:13 ./texinfo/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   98758  Jul 26 13:37 ./libiberty/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   60753  Oct 12  1999 ./libf2c/libU77/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   52296  Feb 24  1999 ./libf2c/libI77/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   52051  May 18 15:49 ./libf2c/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   51601  Jun  1 15:28 ./libchill/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   50373  Jul 26 13:37 ./configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   48045  Mar 12 22:43 ./libf2c/libF77/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   46228  Jul 20 16:24 ./libobjc/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   29649  Nov 23  1998 ./etc/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   26783  Mar 24  1998 ./texinfo/testsuite/configure
| -rwxr-xr-x   19750  Jan 11  1999 ./gcc/ch/configure
| 
| I don't believe I've previously been able to say that, yes, I've contributed
| to producing a *shell script* that's bigger than half a meg.  Yikes.  :-(

Do you have any idea of where that might come from? (The maths functions?)

-- Gaby