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- From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius)
- Subject: Re: root disk vs. mj disk, also hd.c patch
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.145254.947@dfv.rwth-aachen.de>
- Organization: Communication Networks
- References: <1992Aug12.011334.17155@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:52:54 GMT
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- axi0349@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.X. Ivasyuk ) writes:
-
- >First of all, how do you get the executables to be so tiny on the root disk
- >and the mj distribution? I can't get mine under 9K, even a 'hello, world'
- >program. I'd like to be able to squeeze my 80MB drive to the max.
- >It can't be just the -O flag on gcc.
-
- All these binaries are compiled with shared libs and stripped.
-
- >Second, why the large difference in file size between some of the binaries
- >on the 'official' root disk and the mj disk? Are they different versions?
- >Provide extra features?
-
- Jim did some extra effort to compile some of the small binaries
- as "impure executables" to save some extra space. I didn't do
- this.
-
- Martin
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