Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:20:06 GMT From: doppelfish <doppelfish+firefox@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/158508: Port www/firefox (5.0) results in ~500MB libxul.so Message-ID: <201106292020.p5TKK64p041793@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201106292030.p5TKUAPW022058@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 158508 >Category: ports >Synopsis: Port www/firefox (5.0) results in ~500MB libxul.so >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 29 20:30:09 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: doppelfish >Release: 8.2-RELEASE >Organization: n/a >Environment: FreeBSD sputnix.magic.de 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: I've compiled port www/firefox (5.0, using the tarball from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/firefox/). I noticed that the port requires 540993KB (as reported by "pkg_info -s firefox-5.0,1"). I also noticed that /usr/local/lib/libxul/sdk/lib/libxul.so has a size of 470816K (as reported by "ls -s /usr/local/lib/libxul/sdk/lib/libxul.so"). I found that running "strip" on libxul.so brings it to 23328K. I compiled the port (again) inside /usr/bin/script and found: sputnix# grep " -g" compile_firefox | grep " -O2" | wc -l 2783 sputnix# I suspect that compiling with both "-O2" and "-g" causes libxul.so to grow that large (as evidenced by the result of using strip on the lib). I'm also not sure how much sense it makes to use "-g" to build the port. By any means, the file /var/db/ports/firefox/options contains the line "WITHOUT_DEBUG=true", reflecting my choice when I compiled firefox for the first time. The result of the compile session is availlable (5456k). The contents of the file /var/db/ports/firefox/options are: # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for firefox-5.0,1 _OPTIONS_READ=firefox-5.0,1 WITH_DBUS=true WITHOUT_PGO=true WITHOUT_SMB=true WITHOUT_DEBUG=true WITHOUT_LOGGING=true WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true >How-To-Repeat: Get the tarball from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/firefox/, untar it as /usr/ports/www/firefox/; go there and say "make install". Accept the suggested configuration (DBUS=true, PGO=true, SMB=true, DEBUG=false, LOGGING=true, OPTIMZE=true). Observe a 470816K /usr/local/lib/libxul/sdk/lib/libxul.so Observe that pkg_info -s firefox-5.0,1 reports a size of 540993KB for the port. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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