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Re: Huge executable
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Huge executable |
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:35:22 -0400 |
> This isn't a bug per se but I compiled bash under CYGWIN for I586 on Windows
> 98 (using ./configure and make as mentioned in the readme.) and the
> executable is just under 2MB.
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> Being a newbie, what can I do to figure out what happened?
What do you mean, `what happened'? The binary is unstripped and probably
includes debugging symbols. Strip the bash binary (with `strip') and
see how the size changes.
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