[pkg-lighttpd] Compiling lighttpd results in bigger executable
Krzysztof Krzyżaniak
eloy at kofeina.net
Tue Feb 13 12:06:02 CET 2007
Alexandre Carvalho wrote:
> Hello all
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> I starting work on a module for lighttpd and have succeded in compiling
> from source (either downloaded from lighttpd home site and from Debian
> packages).
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> I am working on version 1.4.13.
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> (Debian Etch AMD64)
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> However, the lighttpd executable file gets to 666.3k instead of the
> 165.1k that comes with the Debian package.
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> Now, I’m afraid that I’m quite inexperienced with gcc and ld, and all of
> linux for that matter, so I must be missing something obvious, and I
> apologize for that.
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> I suspect that it may in fact be obvious because from all I’ve read in
> the web on lighttpd compiling I found nothing special besides the steps
> I took:
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> ./configure –prefix…..
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> make
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> make install
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> But no mention of CCFLAGS or LDFLAGS… Is that where my mistery is?
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> Thank you for your time
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> Alex
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> P.s.
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> I was thinking in offering assistance for this package (as requested)
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> but I obvously need more experience.
looks like you have compiled with debug information. You can use 'strip'
command to strip out all debug informations.
eloy
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