Hi!

When I build qt4-libs on 4.99.42/amd64, I get huge static libraries:

-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel   67479820 Dec 22 02:38 qt4/lib/libQt3Support.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel   36105504 Dec 22 02:39 qt4/lib/libQtCore.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel  212102348 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtGui.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel   13491010 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtNetwork.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    6870402 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtOpenGL.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel   34697696 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtScript.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    6442046 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtSql.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    9383216 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtSvg.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    4607340 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtXml.a

I.e. the QtGui one is over 200MB big.

For comparison, the dynamic ones are:
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel   24944932 Dec 22 02:38 qt4/lib/libQt3Support.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel   13554113 Dec 22 02:38 qt4/lib/libQtCore.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel   75348119 Dec 22 02:39 qt4/lib/libQtGui.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    5206556 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    2917812 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtOpenGL.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel   12483892 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtScript.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    2419184 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtSql.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    3670694 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtSvg.so.4.3.3
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    2099945 Dec 22 02:40 qt4/lib/libQtXml.so.4.3.3

Still quite big, 75MB for QtGui.

markd says his on i386/current the sizes are:
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel   12091118 Dec  6 19:19 /usr/pkg/qt4/lib/libQtGui.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    4166660 Dec  6 19:19 /usr/pkg/qt4/lib/libQt3Support.a

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    8715480 Dec  6 19:19 /usr/pkg/qt4/lib/libQtGui.so.4.3.2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root     wheel    3136763 Dec  6 19:19 /usr/pkg/qt4/lib/libQt3Support.so.4.3.2

Still big, but about a factor 10 smaller.

Any ideas why the libraries might get that big on amd64 and what to do
about it? Or is it normal?

I don't have any CFLAGS or similar in my /etc/mk.conf.

Cheers,
 Thomas