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Re: HUGE executables...
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: HUGE executables... |
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Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:36:26 +0300 (IDT) |
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I compiled Binutils 2.11 under BeOS and the executables in ./bin are all
> around 2MB in size!
Did you try stripping them of the debug info (with the `strip'
command)?
Anyway, what's wrong with 2MB executables?
> Can't GNU software just work without everybody having to be an expert?
Don't the programs work for you? Size has nothing to do with that:
you can have a 2KB program that doesn't work, and you can have 20MB
program which does.