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Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
- From: Jeff Chua <jchua at fedex dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: Frédéric L. W. Meunier <0 at pervalidus dot net>, GNU libc <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:17:36 +0800 (SGT)
- Subject: Re: Results with glibc-2.2.92
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:08:28AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> >
> > "ls -l" size of libc-2.2.5.so is doubled, even "size" stays about the
> > same. Is that anything that can be done to reduce the "ls" size of the
> > gcc3.2 compiled glibc2.25 libraries?
>
> Strip them? DWARF-2 debug information is bigger, that's all.
That worked on all lib*-*.so
Didn't work on lib*.a and /lib/modules
So, why does the gcc/glib not default to "strip" during installation?
Most people don't bother with these files after install.
Thanks,
Jeff