On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 09:12:44AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Helmut Schaa wrote: > >> 7.5M ./sbin/ovs-vswitchd > > > I think that your binaries must include debug symbols. I don't know why > > you would include debug symbols in binaries meant for a > > space-constrained application. > > Nope, I don't include debug symbols in my builds at the moment.
Then maybe you should build for i386 instead of x86_64? On i386, with stripped binaries, the total size is smaller *without* shared libraries than you show on x86_64 *with* shared libraries: blp@blp:~/nicira/ovs/_build(1)$ find inst -type f -executable | grep -v scripts | grep -v ".la" | xargs du -ch 44K inst/usr/sbin/ovs-bugtool 1.4M inst/usr/sbin/ovs-vswitchd 860K inst/usr/sbin/ovsdb-server 1.1M inst/usr/bin/ovs-vsctl 4.0K inst/usr/bin/ovs-tcpundump 196K inst/usr/bin/ovs-benchmark 16K inst/usr/bin/ovs-pki 792K inst/usr/bin/ovs-ofctl 4.0K inst/usr/bin/ovs-pcap 8.0K inst/usr/bin/ovs-test 752K inst/usr/bin/ovs-dpctl 4.0K inst/usr/bin/ovsdbmonitor 288K inst/usr/bin/ovsdb-client 4.0K inst/usr/bin/ovs-l3ping 204K inst/usr/bin/ovs-appctl 304K inst/usr/bin/ovsdb-tool 4.0K inst/usr/bin/ovs-parse-backtrace 372K inst/usr/bin/vtep-ctl 64K inst/usr/bin/ovs-dpctl-top 6.2M total _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev