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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de!arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de!not-for-mail From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Bigger binaries in FreeBSD-1.1.5 Date: 19 Jul 1994 11:52:24 +0200 Organization: Inst f Arbeitsphysiologie Dortmund Lines: 17 Message-ID: <30g7pb$4cs@gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: gisli.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de When I tried to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.1.5 I found that the statically linked binaries in /bin and /sbin have grown a lot. Therefore my old root partition is overcrowded. I think this is a *serious* bug, as I have to do a new full install to get this fixed. As far I found this is not due to any usable new functionality, but there are only (for these programs which are mostly used for system management, and this the reason why they are statically linked) a lot of library stuff dealing with LOCALE and similar things included now. Is there a way to avoid this overhead? If yes, the Makefiles should be changed to to this by default to allow small root partitions. -- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund Ardeystrasse 67, D-44139 Dortmund, Tel. 0231-1084-257