Package: guix;
Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:16:01 UTC
Severity: normal
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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> To: 51928 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#51928: GHC 8.10 occupies 1.6 GiB Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:15:28 +0100
Hi!
GHC takes way too much space (GHC itself, not the closure):
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$ guix size ghc <at> 8.10
konserveja ero total self
/gnu/store/allyyvs2xg396s23csrmqfx19n9zayp7-ghc-8.10.7 1831.0 1599.4 87.3%
/gnu/store/z9alkwg8anajvasd01pyx4rzcasli3yf-ghc-8.10.7-doc 190.2 150.8 8.2%
/gnu/store/fa6wj5bxkj5ll1d7292a70knmyl7a0cr-glibc-2.31 38.4 36.7 2.0%
/gnu/store/01b4w3m6mp55y531kyi1g8shh722kwqm-gcc-7.5.0-lib 71.0 32.6 1.8%
/gnu/store/zzkly5rbfvahwqgcs7crz0ilpi7x5g5p-ncurses-6.2 76.9 5.9 0.3%
/gnu/store/35afkywncrr5xsb4cxcljf6rpjcb7f61-gmp-6.2.0 73.8 2.7 0.2%
/gnu/store/mmhimfwmmidf09jw1plw3aw1g1zn2nkh-bash-static-5.0.16 1.6 1.6 0.1%
/gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16 39.4 1.0 0.1%
/gnu/store/bw15z9kh9c65ycc2vbhl2izwfwfva7p1-libffi-3.3 71.2 0.2 0.0%
total: 1831.0 MiB
$ guix describe
Generacio 194 Nov 07 2021 23:40:30 (nuna)
guix bd41e59
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: bd41e590dd24e54797fb8b6854c244efd4d12df5
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Most of it comes from $libdir, specifically:
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$ du -s /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/*|sort -k1 -n| tail
23756 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/haskeline-0.8.2
28776 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/text-1.2.4.1
47664 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/containers-0.6.5.1
48428 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-prim-0.6.1
50768 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghci-8.10.7
54100 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/template-haskell-2.16.0.0
80200 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/bin
151868 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/base-4.14.3.0
426416 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/Cabal-3.2.1.0
538168 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7
$ du -s /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/*|sort -k1 -n|tail
652 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/Llvm
716 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/SPARC
1108 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/RegAlloc
2256 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/DynFlags.dyn_hi
2256 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/DynFlags.hi
2256 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/DynFlags.p_hi
23724 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/GHC
90908 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/libHSghc-8.10.7-ghc8.10.7.so
127908 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/libHSghc-8.10.7.a
225972 /gnu/store/ifr4svr31053fgqay0il5acipl7b6579-ghc-8.10.7/lib/ghc-8.10.7/ghc-8.10.7/libHSghc-8.10.7_p.a
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Can we at least (re)move those ‘.a’ files?
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
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