From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 30 22:58: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 691D314D4A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA68357 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:57:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Huge Binaries.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone looked at netscape Communicator 4.7 for FreeBSD??? I just installed it. the binary is 13234176 bytes long!! yes folks, that's 13 MB! stripped! current1# ldd netscape netscape: -lXt.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 (0x20b5c000) -lXmu.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 (0x20b98000) -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 (0x20ba8000) -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3 (0x20c39000) -lSM.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6.0 (0x20c42000) -lICE.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3 (0x20c4a000) -lg++.4 => /usr/lib/libg++.so.4.0 (0x20c5b000) -lstdc++.2 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.0 (0x20c97000) -lm.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2.0 (0x20ccd000) -lc.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3.1 (0x20ce7000) With shared libraries! It runs but it's quite easy to make your xserver run out of memory (or something (Sig 11)) One has to wonder what on earth they have in there? (My machine has 32 MB so it can run, but it's a bit of a squeez!) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message