home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty
- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: which X386 in agate is better?
- Message-ID: <rvvn8+b.hasty@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:30:31 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <sxsnztn.hasty@netcom.com> <1992Sep9.211847.10985@menudo.uh.edu> <EICHIN.92Sep11043000@tsx-11.mit.edu>
- Lines: 40
-
- In article <EICHIN.92Sep11043000@tsx-11.mit.edu> eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- The version in agate:/pub/incoming was built without "-g",
- for instance, the size of the server is about 900,000 bytes and
- that is uncompressed!
-
- Hope this helps,
- Amancio Hasty
-
-
-
-
-
-