large size binaries after compile on Solaris2.6?

[Mark.Andrews at iengines.com]

	If you were to strip the binaries you would find that they
	are of a comparible size.  However stripped binaries are much
	harder to debug if you have problems.

	Mark

> Hi all,
> I just complied and configured bind8.2.2p5 in what I thought to be
> successfully on a solaris 2.6 sun box.  But after completing my testing I
> noticed a fair bit of disk space had been chewed up.  Initial comparison
> between file sizes on my Sun box to those on a test RH6.0 box showed those
> on the sun box to be a fair bit larger eg:
> 
> sun:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     staff    7145336 Nov  1 05:06 named
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     staff       6463 Nov  1 05:06 named-bootconf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     staff    5049996 Nov  1 05:06 named-xfer
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     staff     447452 Nov  1 05:06 ndc
> 
> rh6.0:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       531728 Mar 31  1999 named
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         6463 Jun 21 15:25 named-bootconf
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       280928 Mar 31  1999 named-xfer
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        38368 Mar 31  1999 ndc
> 
> Note: the binaries on the rh6.0 box are those that came with the dist. and
> don't support named -version but show as 8.2 in the log file
> 
> When compiling I just followed the instructions
> 
> make stdlinks
> make clean
> make depend
> make all
> make install
> 
> and didn't change anything in port/solaris
> 
> Is this large file size normal or should I have compiled it in a different
> manner?
> 
> regards
> 
> ashley martin
> 
> 
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