Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Move dissectors into libethereal

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:42:45 +0100
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:39:15AM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> FYI: libethereal.a now has a size of 45 megabyte (symbols included)! If I
> strip the symbols, it shrinks to 7.6 megabyte meaning a reduction to
> 1/6th... However Ethereal itself remains faithfully at 19 megabyte.

Interesting numbers: gcc 3.4-pre with -O3 on Suse 9.0:
libethereal: 12 MB, ethereal (unstripped/stripped): 9.8/8.3 MB

> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... no

Yes, the messages are confusing: Currently, shared means linked against
shared libs. static meansxt completely statically linked (which is not
working on my Suse 9.0 - it links with warnings but is not really an
executable any more).

  Ciao
            Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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