Size of GCC packages about docker HOT 4 OPEN

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Then I think there is an issue with the LLVM image: it needs the .o files.

My bad, you are correct. The LLVM image includes *.o files too.

Looks OK. I suppose that ghdl1-llvm uses shared libraries for the LLVM part, while they don't exist for gcc.

That makes sense. So, with LLVM we are only building a frontend, but with GCC we need to rebuild a completetely new GCC in order to include the frontend. Should the GCC version of the system and the version of the GCC sources that are used as GHDL's backend be the same, would it be possible to optimize this?

Otherwise, it might be worth mentioning it in https://ghdl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/building/Building.html, so users are aware that GCC requires 20x space (2-3x if taking the size of docker images as a reference).

I suppose it comes from doc/ghdl.1

Wow, that must be so out of date! What about updating it with https://github.com/ghdl/ghdl/releases/download/v0.36/ghdl.1?

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from docker.

Yes, that can be optimized. ghdl uses the system gcc for linking. There might be issues for coverage however.

Great, I'll leave this issue open to track this. Unfortunately, I cannot focus on it now.

Why not.

I'll think about a reasonable procedure to 'automate' it. Say, updating it just before every tagged commit.

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