GNU bug report logs - #23077
Perl's closure is too big

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:31:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
To: 23077 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23077: Perl's closure is too big
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:30:26 -0400

If you run 'guix size perl' you will notice that, as of this writing,
138.2MiB of Perls' 307.6MiB closure is due to referencing gcc's
default output in '/lib/perl5/5.22.1/x86_64-linux/Config_heavy.pl'.
Perl's large closure inflates the closures of many other packages,
such as openssl.

Does anyone familiar with Perl know if we really need to a reference
to GCC here?  Would be great to remove it. :)

- Dave
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