Re: [Fresco-devel] huge so's: are they normal?

Nick Lewycky wrote:

> > In Fresco M1, checking out the sizes of some of the so's in the
> > Berlin/modules/ directory, a lot of the generated so's are huge.
> > PSDrawingKit.so for example is 14MB in size even though the sources
> > are quite small (around 20k).
> 
 > That's abnormal. It's only 950k here. The largest is ToolKit.so, at 5.3Mb.

Hmmm after stripping everything, my ToolKit.so ended up 604KB
and the largest was libBerlin.so at 3.5mb.


Diego Sevilla Ruiz wrote:

> Yes, I think it's typical.  What compiler are you using?  It turns out
> that in some versions (I don't know if this is the normal behavior)
> AC_PROG_CC adds "-g" automatically if it finds the gcc compiler.  Can
> you check your Fresco's config.status file to see if it contains the
> "-g" flag?:
>
> grep -e "-g" config.status
>
> If so, the big size can be caused by the debug flag. Also, you can check
> the size without debugging information by running split on those huge
> libraries.  If the size decreases, you're sure it is due to the debug
> overhead.

Same thing happened with GCC-3.2.2, had to strip the .so's to get
them within reasonable size.