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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: ircd recompile
To: bill@wagill.com (Bill)
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 15:37:40 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960810220245.006c4350@mail.nas.com> from "Bill" at Aug 10, 96 03:02:45 pm
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> I had to recompile ircd (in order to disable operator password encryption,
> and enable operator kills).
> 
> After the make was done, I noticed that the ircd executable was five times
> larger in size than the one originally built when I installed the entire IRC
> 2.8.21 port.
> 
> Although ircd seems to be running fine, I can't help wondering why the
> executable grew five fold.

Probably not "stripped".  Run file(1) on it and see if it says
"... not stripped".  If so, see strip(1)...

--don