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From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: [netbsd] Oversize compiled binaries
Message-ID: <1994Jan05.113653.2700@acme.gen.nz>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 94 11:36:53 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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We're having problems with a machine running NetBSD 0.9. We've got the
standard 0.9 binary install kit, and when we go to compile additional
programs some come out vastly oversized. For example, the Taylor UUCP
source compiled to executables around 1MB (even things like uustat came
out roughly that big) and emacs compiled to a 2MB binary (which seemed
a little excessive even for emacs - is it?).
We're using the makefiles that came with the various source
distributions, and the version of GCC on NetBSD 0.9. Are we missing
something mind-meltingly obvious or is something far subtler at work??
- k
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Craig Harding / kilroy@acme.gen.nz / ACME BBS / +64 6 3551342 / Coherent 4.0
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