Guillem Jover wrote: > Regarding xz-utils' size, I was just checking and it seems not all > programs are linking against liblzma, by passing --enable-dynamic to > both configure lines the package gets reduced to 396 KiB. Also by > not shipping xzdec and lzmadec the package gets down to 324 KiB. > > Jonathan, any reason why those are not dynamically linked?
The usual i386-centric reason: the PIC version is (~5%) slower than the non-PIC version. See PACKAGERS in the source, section 4.1. I considered doing this only on i386, but since I only have an i386 to test on, I would worry about missing packaging bugs. I could very easily be convinced to switch to dynamic linking. Please file a bug (with what you just said about size and any other reasons). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100223050612.ga8...@progeny.tock
