On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, arachne-digest wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 11:44:31 +0000
> From: Neo Sze Wee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: More about Links
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> What is stripping? Where can I download this small binary?
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> I have ELinks 0.4pre5 from Debian with SSL support but I was not able to
> access yahoo mail. It is brokren. Can I get binary for Elinks 2.0?
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1. Stripping means eliminating all the other stuff then the binary
executable code from a file. In case of an executable ELF file this means
eliminating all the information needed for debuging purposes (mainly
debugging symbols).
You may download the non-striped binary and use the "strip" command to
"trim" it. But I think the kernel already does that when loading the
process into the memory. The only issues are the size of the occupied
space on disk and the longer time needed for that process to be launched.
2. In order to have SSL support, Links (and Elinks also) needs the OpenSSL
libraries installed on your system. Do you have them?
Also I don't encourage the use of precompiled binaries. It has always been
easier for me to build everything from sources. It is very easy and you
can customize the application for your system. Just download the tarballs
and check the included README and INSTALL files. In most cases these
three commands do everything:
./configure
make
make install
Cristian Burneci
