From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 25 size and static linking Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:48:04 +0000 Message-ID: <87shbaabbf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <83shbd3vuz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515800820 3983 195.159.176.226 (12 Jan 2018 23:47:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 00:46:55 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 1ea920-0008Hq-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:46:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea940-0003EB-8g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea93U-0003Di-6c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea93Q-0005nQ-9A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:48:12 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp13.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.230]:38654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ea93Q-0005kP-2i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:48:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (unknown [81.17.254.11]) by outbound-smtp13.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7A841C30E5 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2018 23:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: (qmail 13993 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2018 23:48:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.88.156]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 12 Jan 2018 23:48:05 -0000 In-Reply-To: <83shbd3vuz.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 11 Jan 2018 05:41:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.230 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:115675 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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 ... >> -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