Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:43:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peihan Wang <peihanw@mx.cei.gov.cn>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: executable not stripped Message-ID: <19990104154342.F70886@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36904B0D.B17DD403@mx.cei.gov.cn>; from Peihan Wang on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:01:01PM %2B0800 References: <36904B0D.B17DD403@mx.cei.gov.cn>
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On Monday, 4 January 1999 at 13:01:01 +0800, Peihan Wang wrote:
> I downloaded pine-4.05 source code from
> ftp.cac.washington.edu.
>
> I compiled and installed it without any
> problem. But the executable file 'pine'
> is a little big -- 3.13MB. I do the following:
>
> $ file /usr/local/bin/pine
> /usr/local/bin/pine: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand
> paged dynamically linked executable not stripped
> $
>
> Other executable files come with FreeBSD packages
> do not have 'not stripped' string when doing a file
> command.
>
> I think if I change the CFLAGS in the makefile
> of pine-4.05, I can get an executable file without
> 'not stripped'.
>
> I searched man page of cc, but did not find string
> 'stripe'.
You'd be better searching for `strip':
strip(1) GNU Development Tools strip(1)
NAME
strip - Discard symbols from object files.
I suppose it's a minor bug that pine is installed with symbols; you
might like to put in a problem report.
Greg
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