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Remove some ancient reducing-binary-size stuff

Instead refer to doc/small.txt.
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Petr Baudis 2005-09-17 03:51:35 +02:00 committed by Petr Baudis
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@ -50,22 +50,11 @@ $ patch -p0 < contrib/that-patch
you want, feel free to go ahead and update the patch for the current tree and
submit the newer version.
Usually, even after strip, the ELinks binary can grow a lot these days; I plan
on spawning various external files optionally, containing boring stuff like
various translations etc; later, even DSO modules may come, etc. But even
nowadays, you can reduce the resulting binary size by throwing out stuff you
don't like. First, if you want better performance and a smaller binary, don't
compile it with debug. It won't hurt if you do, though, and ELinks will tell
you about any memory leaks, incorrect memory manipulation etc, which may be
helpful to us if you report it. Next, disable any optional features you are not
going to use, they can make the resulting binary smaller (although it'll probably
have no non-marginal performance impact) - especially go through the
features.conf file in the project root directory. Also, you may try to override
the build system to build a dynamically linked binary, which can be a lot
smaller as well. Lastly, you can go to the Unicode/ and intl/ directories, then
edit index.txt and remove any codepages or translations you don't like;
especially for translations, it can significantly reduce the resulting binary
size as well.
Usually, even after strip, the ELinks binary can measure a lot, but you can
radically reduce the resulting binary size by throwing out stuff you don't like.
Detailed discussion of reducing the executable size can be found in
doc/small.txt
!BEWARE! If you _distribute_ a binary of ELinks with OpenSSL linked to it,
and the OpenSSL library is not part of your base system, you are VIOLATING THE