larger ELF binaries than a.out

larger ELF binaries than a.out

Post by Wyatt Anders » Thu, 18 Apr 1996 04:00:00



I'm having a problem where the same compiler options for gcc (except for
-b i486-linuxaout) are generating MUCH bigger binaries for ELF than for
a.out.  Using ldd I see that the ELF binary is statically linked (to libc)
and the a.out one isn't.  Now, I don't care if they are slightly larger, but
I can't afford all my new binaries to be up to 10x larger because they are
all staticly linked.  Any help is appreciated.  

While I'm at it, where can I get new ELF libraries to replace the old ones?
especially libX11.so.6, libXt.so.6, libXext.so.6
Do I have to grab the entire xc-*.tar.gz again from ftp.x.org again and
recompile?

Wyatt Anderson

 
 
 

1. MUCH larger ELF binaries than a.out

I'm having a problem where the same compiler options for gcc (except for
-b i486-linuxaout) are generating MUCH bigger binaries for ELF than for
a.out.  Using ldd I see that the ELF binary is statically linked (to
libc)
and the a.out one isn't.  Now, I don't care if they are slightly larger,
but
I can't afford all my new binaries to be up to 10x larger because they
are
all staticly linked.  Any help is appreciated.

While I'm at it, where can I get new ELF libraries to replace the old
ones?
especially libX11.so.6, libXt.so.6, libXext.so.6
Do I have to grab the entire xc-*.tar.gz again from ftp.x.org again and
recompile?

Wyatt Anderson

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