From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 25 size and static linking Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:41:40 +0200 Message-ID: <83shbd3vuz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878td68qtv.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <83k1wq5qje.fsf@gnu.org> <87a7xle7f4.fsf@fliptop.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515642028 17219 195.159.176.226 (11 Jan 2018 03:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:40:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 11 04:40:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTiw-0003Nw-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jan 2018 04:40:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTku-00051V-Ix for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:42:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTkT-00050N-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:41:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTkO-0004mZ-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:41:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38453) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTkO-0004mV-MI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2707 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eZTkO-0000F5-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:41:44 -0500 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) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115647 Archived-At: > From: Tomas Nordin > 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.