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From: Michael D. S. <md...@he...> - 2002-02-08 19:04:18
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Is there a difference between these, especially regarding libraries? ld -s strip -s Matt Schalit wrote: > > "Michael D. Schleif" wrote: > > > > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > > > >"Michael D. Schleif" wrote: > > > > > > > > What is the secret to minimizing space of shared libraries? > > > > > > You can strip libraries too... > > > > Aha! Much, much better . . . > > > > Live and learn ;> > > I though you knew you could strip libraries > but didn't know how. Look at the man page > for ld: > > -s Strip symbolic information from the output file. > The debug and line sections and their associated > relocation entries will be removed. Except for > relocatable files or shared objects, the symbol > table and string table sections will also be removed > from the output object file. > > As it may not be the version of ld you're using, you > might check that. I don't do this enough to be a big > help, but I figure you got it by now :) > Matt -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . |