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daedalusman

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From: CO, USA

Registered: 2006-12-05

Posts: 258

Google Chromium takes up to 10 gigs to build from source?

So I was browsing the AUR and saw in the package build for chromium-browser-svn that the build can take up to 5gigs to build. Well after surfing the web the official chromium wiki states that it can take up to 10gigs.

This seems crazy to me, though I don't have a lot of programming knowledge.

So my question is, does anyone here know why a program like this, that doesn't have a very large binary, would take so much disk space to build?

Stefan Husmann

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 1,391

Re: Google Chromium takes up to 10 gigs to build from source?

Well, the sources are about 900 MB.

daedalusman

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From: CO, USA

Registered: 2006-12-05

Posts: 258

Re: Google Chromium takes up to 10 gigs to build from source?

Wow, I didn't realize that the source was 900mb. But still, 10gb is a whole order of magnitude greater than the source. I don't know, maybe I just don't know enough, or anything for that mater, about how software compilation happens, but this still seems quite ludicrous to me.

So is there a simple answer to this or is it quite complicated?

Thanks for any helpful information.