On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 09:39:12PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: > Control: reassign -1 binutils 2.24.51.20140604-3 > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 09:32:37AM +0100, RjY wrote: > > During a recent package update I noticed libsvn1 grew a lot in > > installed-size. Upon investigation it turned out this was: > > > > % for i in libsvn1_1.8.8-2_amd64.deb libsvn1_1.8.9-1_amd64.deb ; do > > dpkg -c $i ; done | grep ra_local | grep -v '^l' > > -rw-r--r-- root/root 39800 2014-04-01 03:20 > > ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_ra_local-1.so.1.0.0 > > -rw-r--r-- root/root 2132856 2014-05-21 12:33 > > ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_ra_local-1.so.1.0.0 > > > > Why would a (relatively simple) module for local file:// url access > > suddenly gain 2044KiB in a minor update? The extra space appears to > > consist entirely of zero bytes, as well. > > Good question. Rebuilding 1.8.8-2 in a current sid chroot causes the > same thing. This seems to be caused by something in the toolchain.
> Based on my minimal knowledge of what goes into building the shared > libraries, I'll start this off in binutils' court. It does seem to be binutils. Bisecting one of the overgrown .so files in the perl package (see #753934) with different versions of binutils installed, sizes before stripping: -rwxr-xr-x 1 niko niko 1341099 Jul 6 23:13 lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so-binutils_2.22-8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 niko niko 1341187 Jul 6 23:22 lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so-binutils_2.24-5 -rwxr-xr-x 1 niko niko 3434243 Jul 6 23:24 lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so-binutils_2.24.51.20140411-2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 niko niko 3434243 Jul 6 23:35 lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so-binutils_2.24.51.20140425-1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 niko niko 3434243 Jul 6 23:19 lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so-binutils_2.24.51.20140604-3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 niko niko 3434243 Jul 6 23:14 lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so-binutils_2.24.51.20140617-1 This is with just the linking step, Collate.o was the same all the time. I was using rm lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so make lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so which seems to execute just cc -shared -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector Collate.o -o ../../lib/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so However, the weird thing is that perl_5.18.2-4 has a smaller Collate.so even though it was built with binutils_2.24.51.20140425-1. I see gcc was still at 4.8 then, so maybe it needs a specific pattern that just happens to get triggered with gcc-4.9 or something like that. Hope this helps tracking it down, -- Niko Tyni [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
