From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 18:40:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4F2106564A for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:40:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from masoom.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3F28FC19 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:40:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from masoom.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f30so2292070qba.35 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:40:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=0OChwXbPZRxzRSf8bhVF0Y06snHlP4CuU63y2zufKV8=; b=hXubOT0qkdG5nyeqTJ1BSjbmae/4uAKaa0eHz9+16Cklwgh/9AtJ220Hj7QuEGRPft H7f8lFpJdkbe4nBIE5GmDr6tVwbl+DzDGttNjOmm/vmXdia3slqV/EyS8bnUBtSP1X3p KlTVeCQj7sceXOyxK3CIwqUbJZJsVNsroW8IY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=ccMT8iwhcZbnDgGNxOOZ/zqvGUKsXMUIvRrO7ni65H4dhM2h1xB2BPK+FLY5H03rnF cPo0JbrMiylBygh8nn8RE1nFc2w8Vk9xakBg2Dsq8NrW/ULMsMGTWJLq1ukq14wBw92b JEsoQfTfzVjKMwWqvppGY1EE3lHr3Fc0+9L80= Received: by 10.180.228.19 with SMTP id a19mr1081026bkh.93.1226947234971; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.231.15 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:40:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:40:34 +0000 From: "Masoom Shaikh" To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20081116125622.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large binary, why not strip ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:40:37 -0000 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > >most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk > > > > > >stripping em all reduces their size dramatically > > > > > >I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? > > > > me too > > > > > >do I miss anything ? > > > > no. > > I am confused why both of you are seeing "most" of the programs > installed this way. Can you confirm that this is true and not just an > exaggeration? > > As Matthew says, there are some ports that fail to strip their > binaries because of how they install files (using cp etc). These are > bugs that should be reported to their maintainers on a case by case > basis. > > Kris > > -- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe > Before sending mail I manually stripped * in /usr/local/bin else I cud send u the o/p of `ls -lhS` yes, "most" is bit exaggerated...I perhaps was talking about first five binaries listed in increasing order of size...