Re: Is this a strip problem?
On 03-Nov-2001 Weichang Yang wrote:
> I downloaded the source of shellutil-2.0 package, ran "./configure &&
> make check". Now the size of printf utility is 108102 bytes. Then I ran
> "strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note printf", which
> is what dh_strip uses for executables. Now its size is 18324 bytes. But
> "ls -l /usr/bin/printf" shows 10496 bytes, 8KB smaller than mine. What
> am i missing here?
>
> My system is a Debian potato distro.
> -wyang
>
funny, I thought it did strip --strip-unneeded. It could also be different
compilation options. Or glibc.
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