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by **Neil J. McRa** » Mon, 06 Jun 1994 20:18:40

Is there a proper fixed bash on any of the FTP sites out there?

I know there bash is on the usual sites but I don't know if they are
bugged or not :(

Regards,

Neil.

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by **n..** » Sat, 11 Jun 1994 00:57:57

: Ce brave Neil J. McRae ecrit:
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: Get the GNU source bash-1.14.tar.gz (just released a few days ago).
:
: Type "make".
: You have a working bash.
:
: (Remove the -g option in the CFLAGS or you will get a big binary...)
:
: About bugs, better read gnu.bash.bugs; I have been running it for 2 days
: and no problem on my news shell scripts at least.

I grabbed bash-1.14 source from "prep.ai.mit.edu" and built it
on a box running Linux 1.0.4 (MCC 1.0+). The resulting binaries
are HUGE, see (below); captured output of "ldd", "ls -l",
and "file":

statically linked
-rwx--x--x 2 root root 1514205 Jun 8 09:18 bash
bash: Linux/i386 OMAGIC demand paged executable not stripped

I found no '-g' switch (debug) in the 'Makefile'.

What did I do wrong?

BTW: I couldn't even find "CFLAGS", or "LDFLAGS" :-(.

Thanks.

by **the MOST SIGNIFICANT b** » Sat, 11 Jun 1994 01:59:47

>I grabbed bash-1.14 source from "prep.ai.mit.edu" and built it
>on a box running Linux 1.0.4 (MCC 1.0+). The resulting binaries
>are HUGE, see (below); captured output of "ldd", "ls -l",
>and "file":

[...]

Quote:>I found no '-g' switch (debug) in the 'Makefile'.

Look in the file cpp-Makefile, and search for -g
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by **Ron Watki** » Sat, 11 Jun 1994 02:57:13

You can also 'strip' the resulting executable to shrink it down. It's just
as effective as removeing the -g switch as the -g switch just puts info for
the debugging trace in the executable and strip will remove that. So you
can leave the -g in the cpp-Makefile and just strip it after it's built. You
will get a substantially reduced file size.

Ron W.
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by **Jeremy Bett** » Sat, 11 Jun 1994 06:51:35

>You can also 'strip' the resulting executable to shrink it down. It's just
>as effective as removeing the -g switch as the -g switch just puts info for
>the debugging trace in the executable and strip will remove that. So you
>can leave the -g in the cpp-Makefile and just strip it after it's built. You
>will get a substantially reduced file size.

This is not quite true. It will still be statically linked, because -g
implies -static. If you want the smallest code, compile without -g and then
strip it afterwards. (or compile with the -s option.)

The -N option will make the program even smaller, but not demand-loaded, so
it is a bad idea for bash. For things like fsck, or loadkeys it is useful.
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