>Number:         34825
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Link BIND 9 libraries dynamically to save disk space
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 15 07:00:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Andreas Gustafsson
>Release:        NetBSD 4.99.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD guava.gson.org 4.99.3 NetBSD 4.99.3 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Sep 25 00:54:38 EEST 2006 root@guru.araneus.fi:/usr/build/1007/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

When BIND 9 was imported into the NetBSD base system, the amount of
disk space needed for a minimal NetBSD installation grew quite a bit.
Much of this growth is unnecessary, as it results from statically
linking a number of rather large libraries (libdns, libisc, etc)
into multiple binaries.  Switching to dynamic linking of those 
libraries would save several megabytes.

>How-To-Repeat:

Look at the size of those binaries.  Most of it is common library
code.

# cd /usr/sbin
# ls -al dnssec-signzone lwresd named named-checkconf named-checkzone
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1098430 Oct 14 19:03 dnssec-signzone
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1435846 Oct 14 19:03 lwresd
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  1435846 Oct 14 19:03 named
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1122407 Oct 14 19:03 named-checkconf
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1069686 Oct 14 19:03 named-checkzone
# cd /usr/bin
# ls -al dig host nslookup nsupdate
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1143351 Oct 14 19:03 dig
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1135004 Oct 14 19:03 host
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1133023 Oct 14 19:03 nslookup
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1104925 Oct 14 19:03 nsupdate

>Fix:

None provided.