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Re: compiling setup.exe (was Re: Distributing .ISO files.)


On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 12:01, Robert Citek wrote:
> At 07:27 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> I'm still getting my feet wet with the Cygwin sources, CVS, patch, etc.
> >> For example, I downloaded the setup module and compiled it.  Instead of a
> >> ~100 K file, mine was ~10 MB.  It seems to work, but obviously, I did
> >> something wrong.  Or is being off by 2 orders of magnitude "close enough?"
> >
> >"man strip".  
> 
> Will do.
> 
> >FYI, the stripped mingw-compiled setup.exe is just over 700k.
> 
> Hmmm.  The one I downloaded from the web to do the Cygwin install was only
> about 170k.  How do I create that one?

make snapshot  :}.

Cheers,
Rob

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