How to clean my Mac opensource install?

cb · 28th September 2007, 01:10

I have qt-mac-opensource-src-4.3.1 installed on my Mac. I ran configure,followed by make. It started building everything, and 40 gigs later ran out of disk space and quit. All I want are the libraries. So my questions are:

1) Is there some kind of make option that will remove everything that was built?
2) Is there a make option to only build the libs?

BTW, I'm using Xcode 2.4.1 and gcc 4.0.1.

**jpn** · 28th September 2007, 07:59

Did you configure -static -debug? At least X11 configure supports -nomake demos -nomake examples which splits the compilation time to about half. Presumably it has some effect to space consuming also.

**Brandybuck** · 28th September 2007, 18:09

Full builds of Qt with static, debug and universal options will consume enormous amounts of disk space. If you want static libraries, then use the sub-src make target. This won't install the libraries though, so I usually copy the entire source tree over to its final destination (/usr/local/qt-static), the build there. I also avoid building debug static libraries, as I only use static libs for deployment, it's much easier for development to use the frameworks.

./configure -static -release -no-frameworks ... ... ...
make sub-src

cb · 28th September 2007, 22:22

Thanks for the helpful tips. I'll have to give them a try next time. The command I had used was:
configure -prefix-install -universal -static -fast
make

Before I saw your replies I deleted the whole thing, reinstalled and restarted the build. I kept my eye on the lib directory and when it looked like I had what I needed, I killed the build. Cheesy, but it worked!