Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:37 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: "Masoom Shaikh" <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large binary, why not strip ? Message-ID: <3a142e750811180645g4b32541ek90a80d4d8fe71beb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b10011eb0811171040y536d5e18y171ca9aed686f9bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <b10011eb0811160042w158656bld3b91a2bf7cfdd3f@mail.gmail.com> <20081116125622.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> <b10011eb0811171040y536d5e18y171ca9aed686f9bf@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/17/08, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> > >> > >most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on >> > > disk >> > > >> > >stripping em all reduces their size dramatically >> > > >> > >I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? >> > >> > me too >> > > >> > >do I miss anything ? >> > >> > no. >> >> I am confused why both of you are seeing "most" of the programs >> installed this way. Can you confirm that this is true and not just an >> exaggeration? >> >> As Matthew says, there are some ports that fail to strip their >> binaries because of how they install files (using cp etc). These are >> bugs that should be reported to their maintainers on a case by case >> basis. >> >> Kris >> >> -- >> In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. >> -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu> >> > Before sending mail I manually stripped * in /usr/local/bin And what about /usr/local/lib/** ? > > else I cud send u the o/p of `ls -lhS` > > yes, "most" is bit exaggerated...I perhaps was talking about first five > > binaries listed in increasing order of size... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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