From: Robert Nation (nation@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com)
Date: 02/22/93 

From: nation@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com (Robert Nation)
Subject: Re: Compiling X apps with shared libs.
Date: 22 Feb 1993 14:28:08 GMT

I also noticed that my XFree 1.2 programs were much larger than
Xfree 1.0. I believe that this is because the symbol table included
in libc4.3 binaries is huge when you link in X things. Try stripping
your executable, and see how big it is after that. There is an option
for ld to do this too.