From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 25 size and static linking
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:48:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shbaabbf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shbd3vuz.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:41:40 +0200)
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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
...
>> -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.
I see, that explains it. Thank you Eli and Tomas.
Does this mean that Emacs 25 needs all the same libraries as Emacs 24.5
if you want all the features?
So, libxml2, libiconv, the image libraries, etc.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-12 23:48 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
2018-01-12 23:48 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2018-01-13 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87shbaabbf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com \
--to=rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com \
--cc=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).