From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 14:45:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6AC81065672 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7796A8FC18 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1221077ywe.13 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:45:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=d+9GXBZSXs5pxUvH1eW791wGpxDUZmY/yh8nwl5WX0c=; b=bBSag1uLZLOInA2tk2sGOlYX7bf1oix9gpxDUYA0OGdXjKi6is98injkJb1KlvrlYv 3a5B1HjCSUvbsnKhAsf6A0cDxaKs/xj9kvgDgfq3kTP0G/VpIGR6P+qdp2WZyplS3Fq0 eAnCPPjiR5HV6djO99EdhbDNqX3YnIFwcs0AY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=sY56fMneoEiDrtn9xR7y9hLC4y+SjYT05Y3ojurykXodfc8W59nWKRQxhtw+B8s9zG r7bmOIVu4paXCZP1FLY6zY1yEb6KguYE4o96Gmrh2K7Cf9aSzcEfS6Gc93pXQzbUzFWU i/yJJcQqKAi8hFTiE/LVj7wjLpKmSZBZ+zUOc= Received: by 10.65.155.7 with SMTP id h7mr4956065qbo.58.1227019537168; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:45:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.216.9 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:45:37 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3a142e750811180645g4b32541ek90a80d4d8fe71beb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:37 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: "Masoom Shaikh" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081116125622.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: Wojciech Puchar , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large binary, why not strip ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:45:38 -0000 On 11/17/08, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway 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 >> > 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" >