From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 25 size and static linking
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:41:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shbd3vuz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7xle7f4.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (message from Tomas Nordin on Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:21:51 +0100)
> From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:21:51 +0100
>
> > No, I think the Emacs 24 binary you were using was stripped. What is
> > its size, and what is the size of the Emacs 25 binary?
>
> Here is the listings of the emacs bin directory for respective version
> on the windows machine I use
>
> $ ls -hl emacs-24.5/bin
> total 26M
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 577K Oct 26 2016 addpm.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 956K Oct 26 2016 ctags.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 713K Oct 26 2016 ebrowse.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 8.8M Oct 26 2016 emacs.exe*
This is a normal size for a stripped binary.
> $ ls -hl emacs-25.3_1/bin
> total 205M
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 2.3M Jan 4 11:54 addpm.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 2.5M Jan 4 11:54 ctags.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 1.9M Jan 4 11:54 ebrowse.exe*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 username 1049089 95M Jan 4 11:54 emacs.exe*
And this is a normal size for an unstripped binary with full debug
info.
So my hypothesis seems correct, and you have nothing to worry about.
It's not a bug or some other problem, that's intended.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-11 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 1:06 Emacs 25 size and static linking Robert Thorpe
2018-01-10 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-10 21:21 ` Tomas Nordin
2018-01-11 3:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-01-12 23:48 ` Robert Thorpe
2018-01-13 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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