large size binaries after compile on Solaris2.6?

ashley ashley at ims.telstra.com.au
Mon Dec 6 05:00:10 UTC 1999


The only debug I use is on nsupdate and this still works on the rh6.0
machine.  How would I go about "stripping" them down as I have a real space
problem at this moment?

ashley


----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark.Andrews at iengines.com>
To: ashley <ashley at ims.telstra.com.au>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: large size binaries after compile on Solaris2.6?


>
> 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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