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- From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin)
- Subject: Re: which X386 in agate is better?
- In-Reply-To: wjin@cs.uh.edu's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:18:47 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:30:11 GMT
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- > Is there any archive site which has 'stripped' X11 binaries ?
- > Downloading 12M bytes of X386 server only (even though it is compressed)
- > does not make sense to me since I'll never debug X386 server.
- Since I run at the end of a SLIP line (38,400 wire, but still
- not ethernet) and I've mostly filled a 200M disk, I wanted a smaller
- release for a lot of reasons... there are two things I've done that
- you might find helpful (that I'd also like to see in any future X
- binary release):
- 1) strip all binaries. If I care, I'll build with symbols. If
- *you* care, write a version of "pirts" and keep the symbols yourself.
- [pirts is a reverse strip, I've seen a few people write them under BSD
- -- it takes the symbols and puts them in a different file. Then, when
- debugging something, you should be able to tell gdb "symbol-file
- foo.syms" and have it look there instead of in the exec-file...]
- 2) compress all the fonts. The X11R5 has inline code to
- uncompress them on the fly... all you have to do with the current
- release is remember to delete fonts.dir and run mkfontdir again in
- each of the font directories (75dpi, 100dpi, misc.) I haven't noticed
- any performance difference.
- My current installation only uses 40M (compressing the fonts
- saves 6M by itself; stripping X386 saves over 10M...) and has *all* of
- the user-level functionality of the original release...
- _Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
- MIT Student Information Processing Board
- Cygnus Support <eichin@cygnus.com>
- ps. Above numbers using the agate:ports... version of Xfree86, not the
- one in pub/incoming.
-