firefox-5.0,1 gives 488MB libxul.so

Florian Smeets flo at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 22 19:10:54 UTC 2011


On 22.06.11 20:21, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
> A firefox-5.0,1 package build on my system is 207MB. I do not think that
> is expected, thus I examined the content:
>
> 33MB lib/firefox/libxul.so
> 488MB lib/firefox/sdk/lib/libxul.so
>
> I am on 8.2-RELEASE/amd64, have nothing special in /etc/make.conf, and
> build firefox and all its dependencies with standard options.
>
> Looking for old packages build on my system, I found firefox-3.6.13,1
> with 22MB and firefox-4.0.1,1 with 27MB. The problem seems to be new to
> firefox-5.0,1.
>

Now that you mention it i also see it. Starting with 5.0a the packages 
are > 200Mb. I'll look into it.

Thanks,
Florian


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