Masoom Shaikh wrote:
most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on diskstripping 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 stripped by default. The official position is given here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/install.html#INSTALL-STRIPIn practice it seems there are some exceptions -- this is what I found in /usr/local/bin on my machine (and pretty much everything in /usr/local/bin was installed from ports):
happy-idiot-talk:/usr/local/bin:% file * | grep ', not stripped' | cut -f 1 -d: a2p adnsheloex adnsresfilter cancel cupstestdsc cupstestppd derb dkim-stats dkim-testkey dkim-testssp dumpreg encode_keychange fixnt genbrk gencnval genctd genrb gocr lp lpoptions lppasswd lpq lpr lprm lpstat makeconv nmap omshell openssl pdfimage php php-cgi pkgdata restorefont restorepalette restoretextmode snmpbulkget snmpdelta snmpdf snmpnetstat snmptable snmpusm snmpvacm sqlite3 swig swig1.3 tclsh8.4 uconv wish8.4 workmanir Arguably the fact that these programs aren't stripped is a bug that should be reported to the port maintainers. As far as I know, there is no circumstance where a binary has to be left unstripped in order to operate correctly, other than when it is required to run it undergdb(1). Hmmm.... that's something the ports build system should probably check on and complain about.
On the other hand, compare that to the number of binaries that are stripped:happy-idiot-talk:/usr/local/bin:% file * | grep ', stripped' | wc -l 1206
Cheers,
Matthew
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