size of elf-ncurses executables

[William Mitchell]

I noticed last night that my elf-ncurses executables are huge.
Do I need to do any more than I am doing to build them properly?

Script started on Mon Dec 25 09:29:11 1995
root:/root# cat x.c
#include <curses.h>

main()
{
    initscr();
    endwin();
}

root:/root# cat /usr/local/bin/aout
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/i486-linuxaout/bin:$PATH; "$@"

root:/root# cc -o xncurses x.c -lncurses
root:/root# aout cc -o xcurses x.c -lcurses
root:/root# file x*
x.c:      C program text
xcurses:  Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
xncurses: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
root:/root# ls -l x*
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           62 Dec 25 09:22 x.c
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13169 Dec 25 09:30 xcurses
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       139850 Dec 25 09:29 xncurses
root:/root# ldd x*cur*
xcurses:
        libcurses.so.0 (DLL Jump 0.1pl2) => /lib/libcurses.so.0.1.2
        libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.6pl27) => /lib/libc.so.4.6.27
xncurses:
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.16
root:/root# exit

Script done on Mon Dec 25 09:31:54 1995