stange results
Bob Chiodini
chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Wed Feb 25 18:04:43 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:30, Gene C. wrote:
> I have been rebuilding the updated packages that come out for i386 on my
> x86_64 platform. When I do there is usulaly some size differences. However,
> when I rebuilt samba-3.0.2-7.FC1.src.rpm the size did not just increase a
> little, it increased over a factor of 7 ... from around 9.5MB fir the i386 to
> over 70MB for the x86_64.
>
> The samba packages in the base i386 and x86_64 distributions are about the
> same size. I cannot explain why these should increase so much. I can see
> that the sizes are valid in as the size of some of the binary files have
> increased dramatically. For example, smbclient from from around 874KB to
> over 19MB (both amd64 packages ... 3.0.0-15 and 3.0.2-FC1 respectively).
>
> To rebuild I used rpmbuild -ba --clean with the provided spec file.
>
> Is this a bug of some kind?
> --
> Gene
Gene,
Sounds like the binaries might include the symbol tables for debugging.
I'm not familiar with the x86_64 architecture. but you could try 'strip
smbclient' to strip the symbol tables and then check the size.
Bob...
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