Subject: Pine 3.95 binaries: huge?

From: [email-masked] (Mike Brown)
Date: 14 Aug 1996 17:43:44 -0400

After building Pine 3.95 on BSD/OS 2, I found that the binaries were
HUGE compared to the previous versions:

Pine 3.95: 3568K    Pico 2.9: 616K
Pine 3.93: 1296K    Pico 2.7: 240K
Pine 3.91:  984K    Pico 2.5: 208K

Pilot 1.1 (old build): 240K
Pilot 1.1 (new build): 616K

I compiled with all defaults, and I'm reasonably sure I didn't
do anything special before.  What's the deal?
'strip' did not reduce the binary sizes at all.

Has this increase in size been everyone's experience?  What is it 
attributable to?  Am I missing something?

Mike

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From: [email-masked] (Jie Yuan)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:05:23 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Mike

> Pilot 1.1 (new build): 616K

Good point!

On my SGI (Irix 5.3), Pine 3.95 is also about 3.5MB.

Jie
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From: [email-masked] (Tim Mooney)
Date: 15 Aug 1996 22:28:20 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
> do anything special before.  What's the deal?

What does `file' say?  In particular, are the new binaries statically linked,
by any chance?

> 'strip' did not reduce the binary sizes at all.

Tim
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From: Frank Wagner <[email-masked]>
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:44:27 +0200

> I compiled with all defaults, and I'm reasonably sure I didn't

Hello,

i think this is because you compiled pine with the debug Option "-g".
Change this in the "Makefile" and your pine will get to normal size.

Frank

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