Hi. Wow that does save a lot of disk space, but one question: how do you strip a binary? ------------------------------- Alex Snow Email: alex_snow at gmx.net BBS: telnet://bbs1.dyndns.org web: http://web.alex-snow.dhs.org The Computer Repair Guy: If It Ain't Broke, I'll mess With It Till It Is! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Myrow" <myrow@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:06 PM Subject: a little tip > Since a lot of you (including me) like to compile and try out new > software, I have a tip. After installing it, check to see if the binaries > are stripped. This saves a lot of disk space, yet many installers don't > bother to strip binaries. The only reason not to strip a binary or > library is if you are planning on debugging it. Otherwise, it's just > wasted space. A good example is Centericq. After the discussion of > Centericq on this list, I downloaded and installed it. the binary was > over 20 megabytes before stripping, and after, it was 2.2 megabytes! I am > going to check out the libraries that it built as well. To see if a > program or library is stripped, type "file program" where "program" is the > name of the binary. You will get information about it and the last part > will either say "stripped" or "not stripped." Hope this little tip is > useful to somebody. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
