Once again, I'm trying to compile the CVS version under IRIX6.4 with gcc.
Besides a lot of Gmakefile errors, things are going better than before,
but the executables are huge! About 3X what they used to be. Is this
because of gcc, IRIX6.4, or some compile option I don't have set right?
Any hints?
Thanks,
Bill
Bill,
I've been experimenting with gcc on Irix 6.4 as well. What gcc version
are you using? I've noticed the same kind of thing with ver2.95 with
some things.
Bruce
Bill Brown - staff wrote:
Once again, I'm trying to compile the CVS version under IRIX6.4 with gcc.
Besides a lot of Gmakefile errors, things are going better than before,
but the executables are huge! About 3X what they used to be. Is this
because of gcc, IRIX6.4, or some compile option I don't have set right?Any hints?
Thanks,
Bill
Hello,
Using 2.81 version of gcc, my executables on IRIX 6.5 are around 115 MB. I
didn't realize it as a problem or something unusual. But its size
significantly differ from that of Linux executables.
Rado
Rado Bonk
Geography and Geology
UNO, Nebraska, 68182-0199,
rado@cosmos.unomaha.edu
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bill Brown - staff wrote:
Once again, I'm trying to compile the CVS version under IRIX6.4 with gcc.
Besides a lot of Gmakefile errors, things are going better than before,
but the executables are huge! About 3X what they used to be. Is this
because of gcc, IRIX6.4, or some compile option I don't have set right?Any hints?
Thanks,
Bill
Bill Brown - staff wrote:
Once again, I'm trying to compile the CVS version under IRIX6.4 with gcc.
Besides a lot of Gmakefile errors, things are going better than before,
but the executables are huge! About 3X what they used to be. Is this
because of gcc, IRIX6.4, or some compile option I don't have set right?Any hints?
Thanks,
Bill
Hi Bill,
i compiled grass4.3 and grass5.0 under IRIX 6.2 with gcc 2.8.1 (some
problems due to IRIX 6.2 an my installation) and later with egcs 2.91
(with same problems). I think that gcc did not strip the executables,
when i used the "-Wl,-s" option to gcc that should invoke the linker
(gcc uses IMHO the IRIX ld32 linker with the n32 ABI), i got a
segmentation fault.
I ran a "find . -type -f | xargs -l5 strip" on the whole binary tree of
the installation and a gzipped tarball of grass5.0beta6 shrinked from
155 MB to 35 MB! I think a caveat is to use the IRIX version of strip,
the GNU version (which is not included in the gcc distribution) can
destroy the executables.
So my suggestion is to check if the "-Wl,-s" option is set and if all
executables are stripped. If no debugging must be done it is safe to
strip (remove all symbolic information) all binaries/libraries.
I have currently no time to further inspect the errors on IRIX 6.2, but
you can get the output from the compiling at:
http://mitglied.tripod.de/AndreasLange/grass/compile-grass43.txt and
compile-grass5.txt. If you have any suggestions, please mail me.
Bye,
Andreas
--
Andreas Lange, 65187 Wiesbaden, Germany, Tel. +49 611 807850
Andreas.Lange@Rhein-Main.de, A.C.Lange@GMX.net
Thanks for the hints! I got the segmentation fault with gcc too.
I'm starting over now with no stripping, then maybe I'll try using
the SGI strip. I'm just glad to know why I was getting the
segmentation faults.
- Bill