From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 26 9:43:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A1D137BBAE for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:43:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 19530 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2000 16:51:20 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (HELO park.jhs.no?domain) (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 26 Jul 2000 16:51:20 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by park.jhs.no_domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA70530; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:37:40 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.no_domain) Message-Id: <200007261337.NAA70530@park.jhs.no_domain> To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF rtld and environment variables... From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:39:31 PDT." <200007260039.RAA33336@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:37:40 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Mike Smith Mike Smith wrote: > gzipped binaries are actually a terrible idea; they actually *waste* > space in most cases. Suprising, They saved space for a 200M disc in a 486 laptop with 3.[2,3,or4], it was so tight for space I gzipped everything, (entire output of src/ except kernel), to save space to then install X/ or something else big. That laptop has now gone to 4.0, & aout to elf, & a 1.5G disc, so no incentive to do it all again to see how much FreeBSD-4 gzipped aout binary tree might save/waste on a whole tree. BTW I was `strip'ing everything, did not use more than standard optimiser, & didnt compile with -g. Script I used is on http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/gzip_bins Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ Kostenlos: FreeBSD 3200 packages, sources, Netscape, WordPerfect & StarWriter. Anti Software Patent Petition to Euro Parliament: http://petition.eurolinux.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message