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- From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
- Subject: Re: Reducing size of X libraries, Ultrix 4.2 - How?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.133317.29453@crl.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
- References: <1992Nov13.181057.18197@unvax.union.edu> <SIMON.92Nov18132433@liasg2.epfl.ch>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:33:17 GMT
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- In article <SIMON.92Nov18132433@liasg2.epfl.ch>, simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.213118.25793@decuac.dec.com>
- > mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP) writes:
- >
- > It just shrinks the disk space requirements for the library
- > - your X programs will continue to be, well, X-ish in size, as long
- > as you continue to run X.
- >
- > Small correction: as long as you want to run X on a system without
- > shared libraries for X (such as Ultrix). Yes, I know shared libraries
- > are bad, but for the many more or less useful X applications they are
- > certainly a win.
- >
- > decstation% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 475136 Jul 27 18:13 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- > sparc% ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 40960 Jan 26 1992 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- >
-
- No arguments from us... Here is the same off my Alpha OSF system, also not stripped:
-
- % ls -l /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 46534 Sep 29 11:27 /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- % file !$
- file /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- /usr/bin/X11/oclock: COFF format alpha dynamically linked, demand paged executable not stripped - version 9.0
- % size !$
- size /usr/bin/X11/oclock
- text data bss dec hex
- 16384 8192 0 24576 6000
-
- It is, of course, still a win to get rid of local symbols to help link times.
-
- - Jim
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