Fabrizio Polacco writes: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Problem: it's really a mmap image (thus works only for executables, > > not libs), and includes the libs symbols: > > > > But the real problem is that the sizes are ... unmanageable > the shared lib is half the size of the static one, while the .syms file > is double! > -rw-r--r-- 1 2242044 Dec 13 19:20 libdb2.a > -rwxr-xr-x 1 1129332 Dec 13 19:18 libdb2.so > -rw-r--r-- 1 5246976 Dec 15 13:26 libdb2.so.syms
Does gdb reads in the libs yours depends on ? This might explain that... > So I loose all interest in using .syms files instead of unstripped > static libs. OK. Did you try objcopy(1) ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | ----------------------------------------- A computer engineer's looking for a job ! ----------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .