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Graham Daveney (daveney@speednet.com.au) wrote:
: Mark Levitt (melevitt@syr.edu) wrote:
: : On 10 Aug 1996 12:38:37 GMT, daveney@speednet.com.au wrote:
: : >  With the compile that I just did the uucp binary is 481282 bytes. Crazy !
: : 
: :   Ok, maybe a dumb question, but did you strip the binaries after you
: : compiled them?
: : 
:  I don't know what stripping is so I will look up in the gcc-FAQ. I think
: that I am doing something seriously wrong because I have had binaries that 
: turned out to be a meg in size, and when I look at the ones that come with the
: distribution they were only 200K.
:   
:   Maybe its something to do with statically linked, or dynamically linked.

After doing some more reading of the marvelous gcc-FAQ file I stumbled upon this
section.

	Also many of the FSF authors believe that we want to debug their
	programs, and leave the -g option in their Makefiles. The result is
	that large amounts of debugging symbols are left in and the program
	is linked statically. Check the Makefile carefully to make sure -g
	has been removed from either the CFLAGS and/or the LDFLAGS if you are
	compiling software and you are satisfied with it's operation.

   I took out the -g switch and the binaries were back to quite a decent size.

   I think it will be worthwhile to read up on how to strip binaries though.


Many Thanks
Graham Daveney
daveney@speednet.com.au