(resending, because I replied in private by accident) On 15.03.2013 11:28, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 15.03.2013 02:30, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> This reduces the (stripped) binary size from 1.6M to 572K >> on my system. > > But it creates an additional file, the shared library, which > also occupes space. > > What's the reason for that? Instead of just one executable > we now have executable plus a library, which together is > larger than single executable. > > Thanks, > > /mjt > The numbers I mentioned are the total size of all created binaries (i.e. excluding configuration und documentation, but including all modules and the automount executable, and of course including the shared library). So why does this save space? Because the static library was linked into every module and into the automount executable. Regards, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe autofs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
