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Why is my httpd binary very big with PHP installed?

Jul 6th, 1999 05:04
Nathan Wallace, M.Brands, Jerry Preeper

Your new version might still contain debugging information? You can
check this by doing 

    file <filename>

Ofcourse, <filename> needs to be replaced by the full name of you httpd
binary. If file says the file is not stripped (i.e. it still contains
debuginfo), you can strip that debuginfo by doing

    strip <filename>

Ofcourse, if you run into problems later, it will be impossible to debug
things. But it doesn't happen very often that you need to debug PHP
itself. That's more something for PHP developers (like Zeev and Andy) or
beta testers.