Bug 14261 – bind-tools binaries are huge, dynamic linking helps

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) 2003-01-20 17:16:09 UTC]

bind-tools binaries such as dig, nsloolup and host are really huge (approzimately 1MB!) this is a bind fault not really a gentoo one, however I find it that building libdns, libisc, libisccc, libisccfg and liblwres as dynamic libraries and link those apps against them can help saving space (as example my dig is 61k). This can be accomplished when compiling bind tree with the following example command:  cd ./lib/dns ; ld -shared -s -o libdns.so -whole_archive libdns.a ; cp libdns.so  /usr/lib/bind  along with modifing the Makefile with something like -L/usr/lib/bind -ldns and so on for all the other libraries. Right now I don't have the exact procedure (if you think that this is a good idea I can write one), this is only a raw example.  What do you think?  Bye

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-02-23 14:49:16 UTC]

you wanna fix this Nazzy?

[Comment 2 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2003-02-24 23:32:20 UTC]

Ok, I will see what can be done

[Comment 3 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) 2003-03-07 01:19:00 UTC]

Created attachment 9060 [details]
bind-tools fix

Updated ebuild for bind-tools

[Comment 4 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) 2003-04-07 03:07:01 UTC]

Ok, actually it doesn't do exactly the same but I've just discovered that dynamic 
linking can be enabled with '--with-libtool' (thanks to isc support). 'dig' size for 
example drop to 160K and I suppose that this is a much cleaner method than the 
one I've proposed ;) 
 
bye 

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2004-01-05 20:51:43 UTC]

they seem to be very small atm.
60-70K each for me.
closing this old bug now.