On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On 9 Jun 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>
> > When compiling GENERIC kernel 1.5, the result is 4.745.013 Bytes long.
> > /netbsd (from the original distribution) has 4.949.749 Bytes.

Mere details, but...

fredb@nbftp.isc.org-> tar tzvf kern.tgz
-rwxr-xr-x root/wheel  4749749 Nov 19 14:42 2000 netbsd

> > No big difference, but it's a difference.
> >
> > Why is that?
>
> The "original distribution" uses the INSTALL kernel.

Eh? The installed /netbsd should be from kern.tgz. The only difference
between subsequent clean builds from the same sources should be the
identification string. For a 1.5 distribution I built myself, I have

fredb@fiona-> tar tzvf kern.tgz
-rwxr-xr-x root/wheel  4745877 Nov 20 23:53 2000 netbsd

I still have no explanation for the ~4kb difference.


Frederick