Vitaliy, Erich, thank you for your answers! So I don't need to change anything while I'm debugging code. And when I decide to distribute my binaries it will make sense to strip these symbols.
The whole compile directory should actually be about 350MB. The difference you see is debug information that is not present in binary packages.
Vitaliy.
Most distributions ship "stripped" binaries that have the debugging symbols removed. Run "man strip" at a terminal for details on how to do this post-compile.
Erich Hoover ehoover@mines.edu