POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Help again! : Re: Help again! Server Time
28 Jul 2024 16:20:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help again!  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 5 Aug 2000 22:39:27
Message: <398D18C7.6CAD234C@mailbag.com>
Warp wrote:

>   If libz.so and libpng.so are already installed in the system, will the
> configure program detect this so that it will not compile and statically link
> the ones that come with the povray source (thus decreasing the binary size)?

If they're not installed, things won't work right.  I might take
measures to make that more obvious.  As far as the binary size, notice
that the source will by default produce unstripped binaries with
debugging code.  If you want the binaries smaller, strip is your friend.

-Mark Gordon


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