canuck15 wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering how Astlinux got the Asterisk files so small? I would have > assumed a standard Asterisk install would have the same file sizes. > > Astlinux > /usr/sbin/asterisk file size 867k > /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/codec_ilbc.so file size 84k > /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_sip.so file size 267k > > Standard Asterisk > /usr/sbin/asterisk file size 6.2M > /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/codec_ilbc.so file size 877k > /usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_sip.so file size 657k
It's call stripping the binaries. It removed unnecessary comments which can take up a huge amount of space (as you've seen). It's common practice to do this for embedded targets. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
