Necessary code or trash?
Frank Ruell
stoerte at dreamwarrior.net
Thu Aug 28 11:18:51 PDT 2003
Denis Troshin <weiv at mail.ru> writes:
> Why most of bin (sbin) utilities are so big.
Do a "file /bin/rm" for example. They are linked static, so they don't
depend on any libs, but are bigger because of that.
Just try it for yourself. A simple hello world program:
~$ gcc -o hello hello.c
~$ ls -lh hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 stoerte stoerte 4.4K Aug 28 20:15 hello*
~$ gcc -static -o hello hello.c
~$ ls -lh hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 stoerte stoerte 70K Aug 28 20:16 hello*
cheers,
Frank
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