[Samba] How to reduce size of samba binaries

[Alex Dawson]

At 12:34 AM -0800 1/3/02, Dennis Vriezekolk wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to reduce the size of the samba binaries. smbd for instance is
>about 1.5 meg, which is way to much if you ask me. Is there a way to
>create smaller binaries, maybe by compiling differently?
>
>thanx,
>
>Dennis

Put the following into a file called smbd.c:
---
#include "stdio.h"

main(void) {
         printf("Server could not start!\n");
         return(1);
}

---
then type: "gcc -o smbd smbd.c"

And hey presto, it's down to 6k. It might not do some of the stuff 
that the real samba does, but my fork of samba will satisfy your 
(somewhat baffling) concerns regarding the size of the binaries for 
the real samba.

Kind regards,
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