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Re: auto* overhead
- From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>
- To: Bruce Korb <bkorb at pacbell dot net>
- Cc: Automake Development <automake at gnu dot org>
- Date: 24 Aug 2002 14:48:05 +0200
- Subject: Re: auto* overhead
- References: <3D670AB2.9FAD23CE@pacbell.net>
>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <bkorb@pacbell.net> writes:
Bruce> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3593&release_id=106904
Bruce> blocksort-1.0.tar.gz 235164
Bruce> blocksort-cvs-1.0.tar.gz 13811
Bruce> Interesting. The distribution tarball is 17 times
Bruce> the size of the pure source. 'course the source is small,
Bruce> but the overhead is 221K -- *COMPRESSED*!!
Obviously this distribution was not built with `make dist' (or `distcheck').
`make dist' would not have included autom4te.cache/.
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz