On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > >most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk > > > > > >stripping em all reduces their size dramatically > > > > > >I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? > > > > me too > > > > > >do I miss anything ? > > > > no. > > I am confused why both of you are seeing "most" of the programs > installed this way. Can you confirm that this is true and not just an > exaggeration? > > As Matthew says, there are some ports that fail to strip their > binaries because of how they install files (using cp etc). These are > bugs that should be reported to their maintainers on a case by case > basis. > > Kris > > -- > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Before sending mail I manually stripped * in /usr/local/bin else I cud send u the o/p of `ls -lhS` yes, "most" is bit exaggerated...I perhaps was talking about first five binaries listed in increasing order of size... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
