Re: linking surprise...

[Christian Henz <chrhenz@gmx.de>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 09:33:21PM -0500, Steve Baker wrote:
> Probably one has been 'stripped' and the other has not.
> 
> 'stripping' an exectuatble means removing it's symbol table and other
> debug information.  It can easily shrink the size of an executable
> by a factor of four.
> 
> Compiling with differing '-G' options will also make big differences.
>
If you look at my mail again, you'll see that both binaries are stripped 
and that the smaller one is still linked to sdl PLUS glut.

cheers,
Christian Henz