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Message-ID: | <4609F29B.7070607@iki.fi> |
Date: | Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:44:11 +0300 |
From: | Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> |
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To: | Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com, "DJGPP List (E-mail)" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Binutils 2.17 uploaded |
References: | <OF5058E0D6 DOT 7A3783EB-ON872572AB DOT 00593202-872572AB DOT 00598540 AT seagate DOT com> |
In-Reply-To: | <OF5058E0D6.7A3783EB-ON872572AB.00593202-872572AB.00598540@seagate.com> |
Reply-To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com kirjoitti: > Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> wrote on 03/26/2007 11:10:20 PM: > > # Additionally You may decide compress them with UPX > # (http://upx.sourceforge.net). > # > # UPX versions 1.2-X had problems with DJGPP, but that is no more so for > # 2.0.X. > > I've been considering that - I can certainly do that, I didn't know > if that was a good idea or not. It probably won't reduce the size of > the ZIP much, but it would reduce the size on disk. > > We use UPX pretty heavily because we need some of our stuff to fix onto > floppy. > For GCC-4.1.2 packages it decreases size of ZIP files as UPX compresses better than zip.
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