On 03-Nov-2001 Weichang Yang wrote: > I downloaded the source of shellutil-2.0 package, ran "./configure && > make check". Now the size of printf utility is 108102 bytes. Then I ran > "strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note printf", which > is what dh_strip uses for executables. Now its size is 18324 bytes. But > "ls -l /usr/bin/printf" shows 10496 bytes, 8KB smaller than mine. What > am i missing here? > > My system is a Debian potato distro. > -wyang >
funny, I thought it did strip --strip-unneeded. It could also be different compilation options. Or glibc.
