Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:14:47 +0100 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance Tracker project update Message-ID: <47B32587.40700@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <200802131629.QAA06470@sopwith.solgatos.com> References: <200802131629.QAA06470@sopwith.solgatos.com>
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Dieter skrev: >> As suggested in other posts, deleting .pyo and .pyc files gets me down to >> 6MB. Static libraries (.a files) in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib still have >> mismatching MD5 sums even though no source code change warrants this. Can >> I do anything about that? > > Perhaps they have an embedded timestamp or version number? This seems to be the case: # strings DIR1/usr/lib/libfetch.a > tmp1 # strings DIR2/usr/lib/libfetch.a > tmp2 # diff tmp1 tmp2 2c2 < / 1200728973 0 0 0 954 ` --- > / 1200723259 0 0 0 954 ` 57c57 < file.o/ 1200728973 0 0 100644 2356 ` --- > file.o/ 1200723259 0 0 100644 2356 ` 86c86 < http.o/ 1200728973 0 0 100644 17180 ` --- > http.o/ 1200723258 0 0 100644 17180 ` [...] The changing number is the modification date of the .o file (I think). >> Are static libraries even needed anymore? > > Are you going to be compiling anything? I'm compiling ports, but I could delete the files afterwards. It would be nice to be able to compile stuff in the images in the future, though. I think I'll just leave the files there for the time being. It's a size reduction of less than 1 MB. Erik
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