On Sun, 19 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > I just installed the debianized tin version 1.3 on my system, and the > executable was 1.4Meg! I stripped it, which reduced it to about 500k, > but that still seems large.
I've already reported this as a bug against tin. tin was statically linked. Solution is to wait for a new release or get the source code and build your own package. Executable size shrinks down to around 250K. > I'm just wondering how many more files aren't stripped, or are > compiled with debugging options which waste space on a debian system. quite a few packages (most?) are compiled with -g. Some are linked with old versions of libs, some are static linked. I think that the current developer guidelines say to compile with -g but strip the binary before uploading. Craig
