[Samba] How to reduce size of samba binaries

Bob Sully rcs at malibyte.net
Fri Mar 1 21:33:09 GMT 2002


Ha!  I needed a good laugh!  Jeez, everybody's a comedian these 
days!

:-)


On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Alex Dawson wrote:

> 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.

-- Bob --
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