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Date:	Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:01:21 -0600
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From:	Robert Citek <rwcitek AT alum DOT calberkeley DOT org>
Subject:	compiling setup.exe (was Re: Distributing .ISO files.)
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At 07:27 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> I'm still getting my feet wet with the Cygwin sources, CVS, patch, etc.
>> For example, I downloaded the setup module and compiled it.  Instead of a
>> ~100 K file, mine was ~10 MB.  It seems to work, but obviously, I did
>> something wrong.  Or is being off by 2 orders of magnitude "close enough?"
>
>"man strip".  

Will do.

>FYI, the stripped mingw-compiled setup.exe is just over 700k.

Hmmm.  The one I downloaded from the web to do the Cygwin install was only
about 170k.  How do I create that one?

Regards,
- Robert


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