Rebuild mozilla from source results in large binaries
Taylor, ForrestX
forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Tue Dec 30 00:07:56 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:54, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> I downloaded the updated mozilla-1.4.1-18.src.rpm, installed it and ran
> `rpmbuild -bb mozilla.spec`. The resulting rpm binaries are nearly
> 100MB. mozilla-1.4.1-18.i386.rpm is 77MB, whereas the binary from Red
> Hat is 15MB.
>
> It looks like the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/components/ directory is 182MB
> (20MB originally). For example, libgklayout.so is 55MB in my rebuild
> where it is 4.4MB in the original binary. When I run `strip
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/components/libgklayout.so`, it strips it to
> 4.4MB. I just installed the binutils upgrade, so I am trying that now.
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
I just noticed the --disable-strip-libs option in the spec. I changed
it to --enable-strip-libs to see if that helps.
Forrest
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