From owner-cvs-usrbin  Sat Dec 13 02:51:42 1997
Return-Path: <owner-cvs-usrbin>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA13263
          for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 02:51:42 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-cvs-usrbin)
Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA13245;
          Sat, 13 Dec 1997 02:51:32 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au)
Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.6.9) id VAA30601; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 21:46:47 +1100
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 21:46:47 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Message-Id: <199712131046.VAA30601@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG,
        msmith@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/minigzip - Imported sources
Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

>  Log Message:
>  This framework builds the 'minigzip' sample program supplied with
>  libz.  It is a non-GPL-polluted minimal implementation of the 'gzip'
>  command, yielding a 12k executable (vs ~100k for gzip).

That's because it is linked shared.  When both are linked static under
2.2.5, gzip is 88K (for the installed file size) and minigzip is 72K.
When both are linked shared, gzip is 52K and minigzip is 12K.  I
guess minigzip is only worth putting in crunched binaries if you've
already bloated them by using libz.

Bruce