Steve - On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:36:03AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:38:43AM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > > smbclient 12704 25628 > > > My hope is that there is some systematic cause that can > > be fixed, and that there is not just general bloat and > > scope creep in the code between 3.0 and 3.2 branches. > > I'm afraid that it is probably a question of code bloat. The samba codebase > has never had a very rigorous division between client and server code, for > instance, so there's probably a fair amount of code duplicated in the > executables that isn't actually needed there. > > I've already ruled out the possibility that a failure to strip the > executables was to blame here, which is the only systematic cause I can > think of.
The bulk of smbclient's installed size comes from five binaries: rpcclient smbcacls smbclient smbcquotas smbget Each one was 1.4 to 2.4 MBytes in smbclient-3.0.31, and are 4.3 to 4.7 MBytes in smbclient-3.2.0. I tried the following quick experiment: 1. Download samba 3.2.0 2. cd source && ./configure 3. Delete the stoopid "@" in the Makefile rule for bin/smbclient 4. make bin/smbclient && strip bin/smbclient 5. ls -l bin/smbclient -rwxr-xr-x 1 ldoolitt ldoolitt 3935560 2008-07-21 16:01 bin/smbclient 6. ar r foo.a [massive cut-and-paste of all the .o files listed in step 4] 7. gcc ... [cut-and paste from step 4, substituting "foo.a" for the .o files] 8. strip bin/smbclient 9. ls -l bin/smbclient -rwxr-xr-x 1 ldoolitt ldoolitt 3086272 2008-07-21 16:08 bin/smbclient Hmmm. That was an easy megabyte (almost) to trim. But the resulting smbclient binary is still over twice the size of the 3.0.31 version. - Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]