On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 11:49:01PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > 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
The latest subversion upload used binutils 2.24.51.20140709-1 and the library sizes are back to normal. I don't see anything relevant in the changelog, but it'd be worth seeing if that also resolves the issue for Perl's build. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]>
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