errr the difference could be (and i picked this up off the ipcop-dev mailing list0 that the ipcop folks may use strip to get rid of a whole lot of stuff in the binary.
using strip on the binary i created reduces it to 57056 bytes I am emailing you the source i used offlist. On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:16:26 +1300 Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I renamed the ez-ipupdate binary on my IPCOP machine (which is the one Nick > Rout posted a few days ago) to ez-ipupdate.bak, and then installed the > official "fixes6". However there is a considerable difference in size between > the new (official IPCOP) binary, and the one Nick compiled (now called > ez-ipupdate.bak), as follows: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin # ls ez* -l > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 56792 Dec 18 16:15 ez-ipupdate > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167315 Dec 19 19:23 ez-ipupdate.bak > > One is 57KB, the other 167KB. I can't help but be a little curious about this, > especially as Nick makes the source of the larger one sound slightly dubious. > Perhaps you did something like statically link it when you compiled it Nick? > > I don't suppose you could mail me the source you compiled that binary from, if > you still have it, could you Nick? (obviously I don't want to grab the one > off the mirror you linked as it could've been changed by now). I'd be > interested to run a diff over it (against the source for the same release off > the official site). > > Cheers, > Gareth > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
