Re: srcinst: 10 times as large as on x86

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:12:29AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On x86:
> 
> dixsept:~> ll /usr/bin/srcinst
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 505676 2005-09-16 16:46:42 /usr/bin/srcinst
> dixsept:~> file /usr/bin/srcinst
> /usr/bin/srcinst: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> On the PowerPC:
> 
> ay:~> ll /usr/bin/srcinst
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5117372 2005-09-16 22:30:56 /usr/bin/srcinst
> ay:~> file /usr/bin/srcinst
> /usr/bin/srcinst: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> Is there are reason why srcinst takes 5 MB on the PowerPC?

How where the two versions compiled ? Maybe you used the one with debug
options and the other not, or you ran strip on the x86 version and not on
powerpc. or maybe it is not the same sources, who knows.

There is a bit of a size increment for powerpc binaries, but it is not of this
order of magnitude, maybe 20-30% or so, not sure.

Friendly,

Sven Luther