On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:28:42PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > The bulk of smbclient's installed size comes from five binaries: > rpcclient > smbcacls > smbclient > smbcquotas > smbget > Each one was 1.4 to 2.4 MBytes in smbclient-3.0.31, and are 4.3 to 4.7 MBytes > in smbclient-3.2.0.
> I tried the following quick experiment: > 1. Download samba 3.2.0 > 2. cd source && ./configure > 3. Delete the stoopid "@" in the Makefile rule for bin/smbclient > 4. make bin/smbclient && strip bin/smbclient > 5. ls -l bin/smbclient > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ldoolitt ldoolitt 3935560 2008-07-21 16:01 bin/smbclient > 6. ar r foo.a [massive cut-and-paste of all the .o files listed in step 4] > 7. gcc ... [cut-and paste from step 4, substituting "foo.a" for the .o files] > 8. strip bin/smbclient > 9. ls -l bin/smbclient > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ldoolitt ldoolitt 3086272 2008-07-21 16:08 bin/smbclient > Hmmm. That was an easy megabyte (almost) to trim. But the resulting > smbclient > binary is still over twice the size of the 3.0.31 version. Well, it's a place to start; if you would be willing to put together a patch to do this for each of the programs in source/Makefile.in, I'd happily accept it (since it would save me quite a bit of upload time for each package revision :P). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
