Hi! On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:26:09PM +0000, Thompson, Matt (GSFC-610.1)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] via Gcc-help wrote: > To wit, I'm trying to build some Docker images and found that the code I'm eventually trying to build with gcc (gfortran, actually) doesn't like the versions from RPMs/DEBs/etc. So, my first step is usually to do what I'm quite used to and build GCC a la: > > ../gcc-10.2.0/configure --prefix=$HOME/GCC/10.2.0 --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran > make > make install > > and this works. Huzzah. make install-strip > Ouch. 1.6G. How much does install-strip safe? > Or perhaps is there a configure option to "ensmallen GCC" upon installation? Yes :-) It is documented on https://gcc.gnu.org/install/finalinstall.html There may be other tricks in the installation manual you missed as well? Good luck and have fun, Segher