Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:49:46 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: setup[-legacy].exe v.2.678: 4MB
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On Jan 29 11:34, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> --- Ven 29/1/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
> 
> > On Jan 29 11:47, Gary wrote:
> > > > The new setup executables v.2.678 are 4MB, yes?
> > > > (Replacing files of size ~700K)
> > > 
> > > I'm also seeing this. Seems very strange
> > 
> > It's perhaps just not stripped.  Nothing to worry
> > about, except a bit
> > longer download time.
> > 
> > 
> > Corinna
> 
> the strip likely failed
> 
> $ strip -s setup-new.exe
> strip:setup-new.exe: File truncated

You can't do that, the file on cygwin.com is UPX compressed.

Corinna

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