Hi, Owen <oc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I apologize for this question > > The Gimp 1.2 I have is 2113804 bytes, it came with the MDK 9 distro > The Gimp 1.3.11 was 3597994 bytes, officially released 1.3.11 > A recent Gimp 1.3.12 was 38551604 from one of the CVS repositories > > Why are the binaries of the 1.3 series 15 times the size of 1.2 ? most probably because of the compiler you use, my gimp-1.3 binary (built using gcc-2.95.4) is 7416112 bytes with debugging info and 2122728 bytes stripped. I heard that newer versions of gcc create huge binaries if debugging info is included. Salut, Sven