[H-GEN] GCC problem

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:52:26PM +1000, Johan Myron wrote:
> I've run into a troubling problem. I've recently re-compiled Midnight
> Commander after adding 4 lines of codes [0]. However I was a tad shocked
> to see that the resulting binary weighed in at around 2.7 M, when the
> corresponding pre-compiled program from redhat 6.0 is only around 570 K.

If it's wearing horizontal stripes, that's probably what's increasing it's
perceived girth. Try stripping it. [0]

> I'm assuming this has to do with the fact that the external libraries
> have been statically linked. Does anyone know of a way I could check
> wether this is indeed the case? 

$ ldd my_statically_linked_binary
        not a dynamic executable
$ ldd /usr/bin/emacs
        libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x40000000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4003a000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4004e000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40098000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400a1000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400b8000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400c4000)
        libncurses.so.4 => /lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x40170000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x401b2000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x401cf000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)

Cheers,
aj

[0] man 1 strip.

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