Are you comparing like-for-like (presence of debug symbols etc?)
yep; after strip -g it looks different: # openssl -rw-r--r-- 1 ngx ngx 4281k Jun 10 17:00 libcrypto.a -rw-r--r-- 1 ngx ngx 722k Jun 10 17:00 libssl.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 ngx ngx 510k Jun 15 13:36 openssl # libressl -rw-r----- 1 ngx ngx 3262k Jul 15 00:04 libcrypto.a -rw-r----- 1 ngx ngx 565k Jul 15 00:05 libssl.a -rwxr-x--- 1 ngx ngx 498k Jul 15 00:05 openssl thanx, markus
