[Samba] Cross compiling - size of binaries is large

theHog lists at t3i.nl
Sat Oct 10 11:22:19 MDT 2009


Hi,

I have cross compiled samba 3.3.8 for arm, which succeeded.

However, the size of the resulting binaries is large (few MB's per binary) so
the total installation of samba sums to over 50 megabytes, after stripping the
binaries.

For example, with samba 2.0.10, the size of smbd was 281 KB. With samba 3.3.8
that is 5.2 MB. Same goes for the other binaries. It looks as if there is a
chunk of code included in every binary instead of using shared libs.

How can I get the size of the binaries down? I included the configure options
that I used below and some statistics.

Thanks.

-----------------------------------------
Options passed to configure
-------------------------------------------
--localstatedir=/tmp 
--with-lockdir=/tmp 
--with-piddir=/tmp 
--with-logfilebase=/tmp 
--with-privatedir=/etc/samba 
--with-configdir=/etc/samba 

--disable-swat 
--disable-cups 
--disable-static 
--enable-shared 
--disable-pie 
--disable-relro 
--disable-fam 
--enable-shared-libs 
--disable-dnssd 
--disable-avahi 

--without-ldap 
--without-ads 
--without-cifsmount 
--without-cifsupcall 
--without-cluster-support 
--without-winbind 

--with-readline=$(STAGING_DIR) 
--with-libiconv=$(STAGING_DIR) 
--with-included-popt 
--with-included-iniparser

-----------------------------------------
Size of binaries in usr/sbin: 7.6 MB
-----------------------------------------
Wodan:[toolchain]:/tmp/root/usr/sbin$ ls -alh
total 7.6M
drwxr-xr-x 2 mmnet mmnet 4.0K 2009-10-10 19:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 mmnet mmnet 4.0K 2009-10-10 19:14 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 2.1M 2009-10-10 19:14 nmbd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 5.5M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbd

Wodan:[toolchain]:/tmp/root/usr/sbin$ arm-linux-ldd smbd 
checking sub-depends for
'/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libcrypt.so.0'
checking sub-depends for
'/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libresolv.so.0'
checking sub-depends for
'/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libdl.so.0'
checking sub-depends for
'/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2'
checking sub-depends for '/usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1'
checking sub-depends for '/usr/lib/libtdb.so.1'
checking sub-depends for
'/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libgcc_s.so.1'
checking sub-depends for
'/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libc.so.0'
checking sub-depends for '/lib/libc.so.6'
	libcrypt.so.0 =>
/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libcrypt.so.0
(0x00000000)
	libresolv.so.0 =>
/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libresolv.so.0
(0x00000000)
	libdl.so.0 =>
/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libdl.so.0
(0x00000000)
	libiconv.so.2 =>
/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/usr/lib/libiconv.so.2
(0x00000000)
	libtalloc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1 (0x00000000)
	libtdb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libtdb.so.1 (0x00000000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 =>
/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
(0x00000000)
	libc.so.0 =>
/home/mmnet/broot/buildroot/project_build_arm/mmnet/root/lib/libc.so.0
(0x00000000)



-----------------------------------------
Size of binaries in usr/bin: 46 MB
-----------------------------------------
Wodan:[toolchain]:/tmp/root/usr/bin$ ls -alh
total 46M
drwxr-xr-x 2 mmnet mmnet 4.0K 2009-10-10 19:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 mmnet mmnet 4.0K 2009-10-10 19:14 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 798K 2009-10-10 19:14 eventlogadm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 4.5K 2009-10-10 19:14 findsmb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 860K 2009-10-10 19:14 ldbadd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 860K 2009-10-10 19:14 ldbdel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 862K 2009-10-10 19:14 ldbedit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 860K 2009-10-10 19:14 ldbmodify
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 860K 2009-10-10 19:14 ldbrename
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 862K 2009-10-10 19:14 ldbsearch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 4.3M 2009-10-10 19:14 net
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 845K 2009-10-10 19:14 nmblookup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 1.9M 2009-10-10 19:14 ntlm_auth
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 1.1M 2009-10-10 19:14 pdbedit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 790K 2009-10-10 19:14 profiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.9M 2009-10-10 19:14 rpcclient
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 792K 2009-10-10 19:14 sharesec
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.8M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbcacls
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.7M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbclient
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 860K 2009-10-10 19:14 smbcontrol
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.7M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbcquotas
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.8M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbget
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.7M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbpasswd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 2.0M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbspool
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 843K 2009-10-10 19:14 smbstatus
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 4.8K 2009-10-10 19:14 smbtar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 3.6M 2009-10-10 19:14 smbtree
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet  30K 2009-10-10 19:14 tdbbackup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet  29K 2009-10-10 19:14 tdbdump
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet  38K 2009-10-10 19:14 tdbtool
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mmnet mmnet 793K 2009-10-10 19:14 testparm



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