Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:14:50 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large binary, why not strip ? Message-ID: <492EC77A.5050403@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081117210649.GE63818@hub.freebsd.org> References: <b10011eb0811160042w158656bld3b91a2bf7cfdd3f@mail.gmail.com> <20081116125622.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> <b10011eb0811171040y536d5e18y171ca9aed686f9bf@mail.gmail.com> <20081117210649.GE63818@hub.freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +0000, Masoom Shaikh 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 >> >> 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... > > Yeah the largest binaries are likely to be unstripped. You can use > pkg_which (part of portupgrade) to work out which ports they came > from, then send the mainainer a polite email and/or PR request that > they be installed stripped. > > Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it > will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to > use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good > project to get some familiarity with the ports tree. > I was going to do some work on this except $file *|grep "not stripped" $ - -- Eitan Adler GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkux3oACgkQtl8kq+nCzNEWwgCglRkz0Il3/bLJazVszuRf69f1 pegAoI/paoyYAz4hqRZhdWuUb6WJk+tK =fGB3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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