From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 21:06:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id E70AB1065687; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:06:49 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: Masoom Shaikh Message-ID: <20081117210649.GE63818@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20081116125622.E24752@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081117172100.GB43367@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Wojciech Puchar , Kris Kennaway , 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 21:06:50 -0000 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > 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... 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 -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe