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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:26:15 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin DLL 1.3.3 - Not yet a true bug
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:30:45AM +0200, Fabrizio Impagnatiello wrote:
>Dear Sirs,
>
>this is only to advise that new version generates larger executables.
>
>A simple 'Hello' FORTRAN program is not less than 410 kByte (before about 60).
>
>My opinion is that the reason should be the size of some files. With
>respect to previous 1.3.2 version, the libcygwin.a file size is (for
>example) 2.3 MBytes instead of 824 kByte, probably due to a different
>compiler optimization set.
>
>Please could You reissue the distribution ?

Use strip.

cgf

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