Re: How to reduce the binary size of snort?

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:39 AM, S U B A<jv.suri () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>              Currently snort binary size after compilation is 8652 Kb (FC9
> and 2.6.25.11 kernel), after stripping it is 6488 Kb. How to reduce the size
> of the snort binary?
> The parser.c is of 268 Kb and why the parser.o is of size 5824 Kb?? I think
> because of this parser.o the snort binary size is very large.
> Can anyone give some suggestions on how to reduce the size of snort binary?

Why do you want to do this? Why do you believe it is too large? What
is it that you, who is "new to snort", are trying to do?

-- 
Nigel Houghton
Head Mentalist
SF VRT
http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com && http://www.snort.org/vrt/

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