Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 20:18:46 +0200 From: Frank Ruell <stoerte@dreamwarrior.net> To: Denis Troshin <weiv@mail.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Necessary code or trash? Message-ID: <87ekz5ve61.fsf@dreamwarrior.foobar.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1671561231.20280829005225@mail.ru> (Denis Troshin's message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2028 00:52:25 %2B0700") References: <1671561231.20280829005225@mail.ru>
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Denis Troshin <weiv@mail.ru> writes: > Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big. Do a "file /bin/rm" for example. They are linked static, so they don't depend on any libs, but are bigger because of that. Just try it for yourself. A simple hello world program: ~$ gcc -o hello hello.c ~$ ls -lh hello -rwxr-xr-x 1 stoerte stoerte 4.4K Aug 28 20:15 hello* ~$ gcc -static -o hello hello.c ~$ ls -lh hello -rwxr-xr-x 1 stoerte stoerte 70K Aug 28 20:16 hello* cheers, Frank
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