Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:06:49 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@gmail.com> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large binary, why not strip ? Message-ID: <20081117210649.GE63818@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <b10011eb0811171040y536d5e18y171ca9aed686f9bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <b10011eb0811160042w158656bld3b91a2bf7cfdd3f@mail.gmail.com> <20081116125622.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> <b10011eb0811171040y536d5e18y171ca9aed686f9bf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> 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 <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>
> >
> 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...
Yeah the largest binaries are likely to be unstripped. You can use
pkg_which (part of portupgrade) to work out which ports they came
from, then send the mainainer a polite email and/or PR request that
they be installed stripped.
Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it
will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to
use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good
project to get some familiarity with the ports tree.
Kris
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