big cross-compiled binaries

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> I just finished building a solaris 2.5 -> sunos 4.1.3 cross-compiler.
> Everything appears to be working correctly.  ie.  I can run the
> cross-compiled binaries on my target machine (sunos 4.1.3).
> 
> The only problem left is that the cross-compiled binaries are anywhere
> from 80K to 100K larger than the natively compiled sunos 4.1.3
> binaries.
> 
> Is this normal?  If not, does anybody have any ideas?  I'm sure that
> the cross-compiled binaries were stripped.  So that isn't it.
> 
> Here are the things I have done:
> 
> (1) I did not build cross-assemblers, cross-linkers, etc.  Instead I
>     just used the sunos 4.1.3 versions of these executables because
>     they all run on my solaris 2.5 box.
> 
> (2) I just copied all the libraries and includes from my sunos 4.1.3
>     box into the appropriate places.  ie.  I am not using glibc or
>     newlib.
> 
> (3) I must run ranlib on the final cross-compiled libraries because
>     that is what sunos 4.1.3 expects.  The sunos 4.1.3 ranlib calls
>     ar.  So I have made sure that the sunos 4.1.3 ar is first in my
>     path when I call ranlib.
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>     ...Tyler

Could it be that shared objects are being statically linked?

Just a quick thought.

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