seems that the Makefile is _very conservative_ in its promises of disk
space savings --- my results are for linux, but gzip is gzip is gzip,
no?
% make install
[...]
If you would like to save approximately 2M of disk space, do
make gzip-el
or you may run
/home/gb/src/xemacs/lib-src/gzip-el.sh lispdir from the command line.
Where lispdir is where the lisp files were installed, i.e.,
/usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.2-b37/lisp
% df . ; make gzip-el > /dev/null ; df .
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 1400864 1178916 150788 89% /
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 1400864 1174628 155076 88% /
% expr 155076 - 150788
4288
%