On Monday, September 29, 2014 12:37:37 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:56 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 09/28/2014 01:44 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are > >> unaccountably large. > > > > Are you cross-compiling for different hardware? I'm just curious what > > results you get with --march=native. > > Nope. Actually, I compiled with --march=native, with no difference > (probably because my code is not fancy enough to make use of whatever > stuff that pulls), but then tried i686 just to enable comparing with > non-Gentoo systems. > The purpose is to have small static binaries compiled against dietlibc > to be used in the same computer (compile once and forget about future > software incompatibilities!). I compiled against glibc to make sure > the problem is not with dietlibc.
Did you compile the used libraries using the exact same options on both systems as well? When compiling a static binary, the libraries are included into the resulting binary. If the libraries on Gentoo are bigger, the resulting static binary will also be bigger. -- Joost
