Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:32:23 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/26/08, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-27 Thread Eitan Adler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: 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

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good project to get some familiarity with the

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-26 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/26/08, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 11/26/08, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-19 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +, Masoom Shaikh 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

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/17/08, Masoom Shaikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Nov 18, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: And what about /usr/local/lib/** ? Interesting. I found that only 11 are stripped on my system compared to 272 not stripped That is pretty much the opposite of the ratio I round in /usr/local/ bin where there were something like 350

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +, Masoom Shaikh 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 ? do I miss anything ? I haven't seen anyone

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
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.

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Masoom Shaikh
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

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: 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

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Kris Kennaway wrote: Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good project to get some familiarity with the ports tree. Would it be

large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-16 Thread Masoom Shaikh
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 ? do I miss anything ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Masoom Shaikh 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 ? do I miss anything ? Yes. Binaries installed from the ports system /are/ already

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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. ___