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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is there a make-tree flag for compressing binaries? Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:24:22 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4le926$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4l8ad8$bn4@plains.nodak.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes: >The LINT kernel config file has a pseudo-device to "#Exec gzipped a.out's", >but I don't see any gzip or compress flags in files in /usr/share/mk/ >or in /etc/make.conf. > >- What is the correct way to specify that binaries are automatically > installed as compressed? > >- Is this coming in a future release? The binary on the fixit floppy is zipped by default. Nothing else. It's not a generally useful method either, in particular it wastes some VM. It's most likely useful for a laptop with too much RAM :) and a too small disk. I don't think anybody is going to make larger parts of the system auto-installed as zipped binaries. (In case you wonder why it is wasting VM: the executable cannot be demand-paged from the disk file, since it must be unpacked into some temporary storage [VM] first.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)