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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:59:25 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        sam@wa4phy.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Userland not installing
Message-ID:  <20011217135925.A74987@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <200112171853.fBHIreM39086@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:53:40AM -0800
References:  <3C1E3D39.3F01D09A@vortex.wa4phy.net> <200112171853.fBHIreM39086@bunrab.catwhisker.org>

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Of course, one could always use "file" on each binary to see what the
differences are.  But that would be too easy.  

Sigh... the new tea I tried must not have enough caffiene.  

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:53:40AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:45:13 -0500
> >From: Sam Drinkard <sam@wa4phy.net>
> 
> >Something is rather odd here, and I'm at a loss to explain it.  Checking
> >dates does in fact show a Dec 17th datestamp, but comparing the /usr/bin
> >executables against /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin executables shows they are
> >different in size, but datestamps are the same, Dec 17.  This whole
> >thing started with a funny netstat output.  Looking at file sizes, I see
> >in /usr/bin, netstat is:
> 
> >-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem 91008  Dec 17 13:06 /usr/bin/netstat
> 
> >and in /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat:
> 
> >-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  99182   Dec 17  12:24  netstat
> 
> 
> >Knowing it has not been installed, but it does give proper output.  A
> >view of the script of the install does not show any problems...
> 
> 
> FYI:
> 
> m133[1] file /usr/bin/netstat /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/netstat
> /usr/bin/netstat:                         setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/netstat: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
> m133[2] ls -l !:*
> ls -l /usr/bin/netstat /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/netstat
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem   91008 Dec 17 05:58 /usr/bin/netstat
> -rwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel  99182 Dec 17 05:38 /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat/netstat
> m133[3]
> 
> 
> (I.e., the new one *is* installed; it's stripped, while the one in
> /usr/obj is not stripped, thus accounting for the size difference.)
> 
> Cheers,
> david
> -- 
> David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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