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QT-opensource-4.7.3
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morgonzola
 Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 160 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
ok so here is the full Qt library. its huge. unfortunately i included too many symlinks in the / directory so just go in there and delete those that are not useful. i figure this is easier then re-uploading the whole thing (huge ugh) i can make a script which will do it, but i'm afraid of deleting things that people already had there, so if the script is desired i will try and make it. this is if you got the old one!!!!!!!!!!! for the new one, its all good i cleaned it up everything is compiled in /opt/qt-opensource-4.73 qt-opensource-4.7.3 size=161.11 MB file host=2shared[/b] |
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon |
Hello Morgonzola, I'm a bit daunted by the size of your QT4 sfs! Compared with Pemasu's 4.8: qt4-4.8.0.sfs (18M) http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Sfs/qt4_DEV-4.8.0.sfs (14M) I wonder whether, before creating the sfs, you stripped all the libraries? |
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playdayz
 Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3705 |
Good guess muggins. There was also considerable documentation included. Musescore 1.0 is available in a 68MB pet complete. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=531042#531042 |
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Dingo
 Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 1397 Location: somewhere at the end of rainbow... |
I usually: perform strip
perform sstrip (from elfkickers) to eliminate little garbage that strip leaves if I'm not satisfied, I try to re-build against dietlibc for binaries, I often compress with upx _________________ replace .co.cc with .info to get access to stuff I posted in forum dropbox 2GB free OpenOffice for Puppy Linux |
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morgonzola
Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 160 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
oh ok. to be honest i don't know what any of that is  tee hee but! i will try it out on the qt thing sometime this week and make a re post
but thanks for all the advice  much appreciated
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon |
Hello Morgonzola, yes, strip can reduce the size of binaries, and library files, by removing symbols that aren't required for the compiled propgram/library to work. Also, it's been awhile since I last compiled QT4 but, (from what I can recall), if you include the configure option -fast, it really does speed up compilation. cheers |
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morgonzola
Joined: 21 Apr 2010 Posts: 160 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
actually can i ask a clarifying question about stripping libraries? do i have to tell strip what i specifically want to strip? and if that is so what do i tell it to strip? also does this take place in the original directory i made it in or is it in the one i plan on turning into a pet/sfs also does compressing binaries have a lot of impact? or is it just another thing to do |
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muggins
Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon |
Binaries & library .so files should always be stripped, to reduce their size by removing unnecessary debugging symbols. With bin directories you can just run, in the relevant directory:
whereas for library files, as mentioned by Dingo, you could use:
(Although, ftom memory, I think Mu usedto use strip * on libs as well?) Note that strip isn't recursive, so if there are other library files, in subdirectories, you will either need to run the same command in them, or write a script to recursively call strip. With regard to also compressing binaries, by upx'ing them, well it depends on how the files will be packaged. There's no need to upx binaries in your QT4 sfs, as they'll already be compressed by squashfs. Edit:
Usually you'll find, after doing a make install, that often the Makefile has already called strip. But, it's something to get into the habit of checking, in your final pet directory, especially in the case of big packages like QT4.
Stripping doesn't change the operation of the binary, only removing unrequired symbols. (With the caution that --strip-uneeded has to be used for libs, as they might not work with more aggressive stripping.) Upx'ing binaries also doesn't negatively alter their operation...just makes them load slightly slower. But, as mentioned above, you wouldn't upx binaries intended for inclusion in an sfs file. One last thing about upx'ed bimaries is that running ldd on them doesn;t show which library files they're linked to. The solution is to run upx -d binary_name first, then use ldd binary_name. |
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