Re: Size of galeon executable

Tommi Komulainen <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:54:34 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
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On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 15:23 -0400, Peter wrote:
> I use --enable-maintainer-mode=no and --enable-debug=no, yet the size of my
> 1.3.16.99 galeon file is 20.2MB! I checked the package delivered with my
> Slackware distro, and it was 1.2MB.
> 
> Out of curiosity, why the huge size? Do I need to change something manually
> in the Makefile?  Thx

Because it includes debugging symbols that are invaluable for debugging
galeon crashes.  You can use 'make install-strip' or 'strip galeon' to
get the size down, but it will make debugging crashes much harder.  If
you report a crash from stripped galeon you are very likely asked to
provide a stack trace with debugging symbols present.

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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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