Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 12:50:43 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, 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 Message-ID: <199712131250.MAA16553@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 1997 22:12:17 %2B1030." <199712131142.WAA02706@word.smith.net.au>
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> > >Very good; give the man a bannana. Gzip linked (shared) under 3.0 is
> > >actually about 100k, as noted in the log message.
> >
> > Wrong. It is 52K when linked shared under both -current and 2.2 (I
> > actually tested under freefall's ancient version of 2.2, not under 2.2.5).
>
> MHO, it appears that gzip is built static even though it is installed
> in /usr/bin. Any idea why this is?
I guess it makes life easier to set up a wu-ftpd that does on-the-fly
decompression (just copy gzip).
> mike
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