On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Roderich Schupp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:30 AM, scott miller <[email protected]> > wrote: >>>> myldr/par is sitting at about 4.2 MB. >>> >>> Why is that so large? It should be about the size of your perl executable >>> (because it is actually a special purpose Perl interpreter). >> >> Very good question, that is also the size of my perl binary, which is >> about twice as larger than I'd expect... >> >> For comparison the version of perl that is distributed with HP IA64 >> systems (called perl-dynamic...the standard perl binaries are symbolic >> links to it) appears to be only about 22KB, which is much smaller than >> I'd expect. The my_libperl.c that is produced with that perl >> distribution still appears to be 38MB, but the my_par.c is >> significantly smaller at 1.1MB. > > If the perl executable is dynamically linked against a shared > libperl*.so or similar, > then par should be, too. The "standard" perl binary with a size of 22KB is > almost certainly linked dynamically. In that case you should also see a file > myldr/my_libperl.c which contains this libperl*.so stuffed into some > static char arrays. > > If the perl executable is not dynamically linked against a libperl*.so then > PAR::Packer should not have generated myldr/my_libperl.c. > In any case, the par binary should be about the same size as the perl binary. > my_par.c and my_libperl.c should be about 5 times the size of par and > libperl*.so, resp. > > If your self-built perl and libperl*.so are much larger than the distributed > versions, maybe the contain debug information? > > Cheers, Roderich >
Recompiling perl, using a shared libperl did the trick. Thanks for your help, Scott
