In a recent note, Phil Sidler said: > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:08:27 -0800 > > I found the following message on the MVS-OE mailing list in response to a > question regarding the large size of executables in OS/390. I remade > lynx2.8.3dev.20 setting CFLAGS = -Wl,"EDIT=NO" and it went from 5,148,672 > bytes to 2,441,216 bytes. I think this is something worth incorporating in > the distribution. > > --- > > Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:44:50 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Binder output and module size > > 2 the executable contains binder/lked EDIT information. Within an USS > environment these are typically not needed because make rebuilds an > executable from ALL objects (.o file). Now, if you link/bind with EDIT=NO, > i.e. > c89 -Wl,"EDIT=NO" -O -o hello hello.c > you will reduce the the size of the executable by a reasonable amount. > Sounds good. Since you've done the coding, would you care to submit a patch to lynx-dev? I'll test it. Hmmm. How does one put platform-sensitive CFLAGS in makefile.in? I've always done it in the call to configure. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL
