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From: Derrick Norris <denorris@bellsouth.net>
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To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Differences in sizes of binaries after recompiling
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:49:36 -0500
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On Friday 14 December 2001 01:36 pm, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:34:17PM -0500, Derrick E. Norris wrote:

<snip>

> > EVERY binary I looked at (and I looked at quite a few) from the
> > new buildworld was 10%-11% larger.  My question is, why would
> > there be such a large size difference in the binaries when
> > building 4.4p1 from 4.4 (as was done the second time) as opposed
> > to building 4.4 from 4.3 (as I did just after 4.4-RELEASE)?  Was
> > enough work done on build tools and libraries between 4.3 and 4.4
> > to explain the difference? And should I install this new world in
> > which the binaries are 10% larger (in other words, is there
> > something missing from the binaries in the 4.4 world I built from
> > 4.3)?
>
> The binaries in /usr/obj are stipped on install.

Thanks for the quick reply.  Looks like some ignorance was exposed 
despite my worst fears :-).

Makes sense now.

Thanks,
Derrick

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