Using pkgsrc under Linux, the binaries are huge. For example:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      8968811 Mar  8 22:42 /usr/bin/openssl

Then stripped:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       950460 Mar 17 06:28 /usr/bin/openssl

But on a non-pkgsrc system:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       268168 Sep 30 16:25 /usr/bin/openssl

On a pkgsrc system:

reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gramps$ file /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.0
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.1
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386,
version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc/databases/gramps$ ls -l /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.0
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.1
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       936746 Sep 22 23:34
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.0
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root      7033221 Mar  8 22:42
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.300.1

(I don't know the size differences above are so different.)

On a non-pkgsrc system:

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       771908 Sep 30 16:25
/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6

These files are just too large:

-r--r--r--    1 root     root      1954980 Oct 14 09:36
/usr/lib/libdb2.so.2.7
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      3608562 Oct 14 09:36 /usr/lib/libdb2.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 reed     reed      7337373 Mar  6 20:44
/usr/lib/libdb4-4.2.so.2.52
-rwxr-xr-x    1 reed     reed      8455036 Mar  6 20:46
/usr/lib/libdb4_cxx-4.2.so
-rw-r--r--    1 reed     reed     12971896 Mar  6 20:49 /usr/lib/libdb4.a
-rw-r--r--    1 reed     reed     12971896 Mar  6 20:49
/usr/lib/libdb4-4.2.a
-rw-r--r--    1 reed     reed     15147780 Mar  6 20:49
/usr/lib/libdb4_cxx.a
-rw-r--r--    1 reed     reed     15147780 Mar  6 20:49
/usr/lib/libdb4_cxx-4.2.a


I use gcc 3.x for these builds.

Any ideas on how to find out why they are so big?

Any ideas on how to have them be smaller?

I use strip to make smaller; in some cases it is automatic with pkgsrc.
But even when stripped files appear to way larger than on NetBSD or other
Linux system.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/