[ale] Bash Bug: size of bash?

dZothMuellarg zot at crl.com
Mon Sep 2 22:14:27 EDT 1996


Hi,
I have rebuilt bash 1.14.6 and 1.14.7 and it builds on hte first try.

The only problem is it is huge compared to the existing bash (1.14.5)

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       299296 Nov  2  1995 /bin/bash

-rwxrwxr-x   1 root     root      1506543 Sep  2 21:00 bash

Quite a difference!

Now I have not installed the new bash, but it does run.  Is there an
option I should use to compress it?  Is .6 and up that much bigger?
Any one else see this?

All of the other shells are in line with the original:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        61217 Nov  2  1995 /bin/ash*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       299296 Nov  2  1995 /bin/bash*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       104864 Nov  2  1995 /bin/csh*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       154889 Oct 31  1995 /bin/ksh*
-rwx------   1 root     root           44 Jan 22  1996 /bin/tail.sh*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root     root       252496 Nov  2  1995 /bin/tcsh*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       293865 Nov  2  1995 /bin/zsh*

on crl:
---x--x--x  1 root       147456 Jan 20  1994 /usr/bin/csh
---x--x--x  1 root       131072 Oct 19  1993 /usr/bin/ksh
---x--x--x  1 root       106496 Jan 20  1994 /usr/bin/sh

-- 
Later,
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