Re: Newest gmc package size

[Brian M Dial <bdial rkkengineers com>]

I found this out in packaging stuff for slackware.

By stripping the binaries of symbols (i.e. debugging symbols) you can
decrease the size of a binary (program or library) to almost 10% of it's
original size.  

-Brian

Hall Stevenson wrote:
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I downloaded the new gmc rpm package over
> the weekend and it was over 5mb in size. I'm getting it right now and
> it's 1.08mb. I don't know what size mc and mcserv are yet... What makes
> the big difference in size like that ?
> 
> Hall
> 
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