On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 09:44:16AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote >> I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are >> unaccountably large.
> "-fno-unwind-tables" is the extra flag I have that you don't have. > See http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/36695 for a short > discussion ".eh_frame bloat issue - solution found". The busybox people > go to extreme lengths to keep the size of busybox to a minimum, so you > can't go wrong by following their example. I assume that you do not > have debugging enabled. Just tried it, no difference. The point is that the same flags should yield similar results, and I'm getting the worst results on my Gentoo system. > > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications > +1, BTW...
