From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: Compiling X apps with shared libs. Date: 22 Feb 1993 21:00:40 GMT
In article <NATION.93Feb22092808@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com> nation@snoopy.sanders.lockheed.com (Robert Nation) writes:
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>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.
That explains why I was nolonger able to install the SLS distribution on
a single 64 Meg partition. Even after compressing many things I don't use
regularly (including many things in the /usr/bin directory) I still found
myself short of space. I finially had to uninstall a some packages to make
things fit. It would be nice if the SLS distribution had all documentation
and source code other than include libraries compressed. This way we wouldn't
find sysinstall -all termininating due to lack of diskspace. At this point
you have to remove some of the packages you just installed so you have enough
tmp space to compress things. Of keep finding something new to compress before
you can install the next disk. Obcourse you could use an extfs partition
instead, but extfs is soooo slow.
Anyways this is just food for thought. If the person overall in charge of the
SLS distribution doesn't have time to make this change, I'm more than happy to
help.
Bill