diff options
| author | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-05-03 21:38:35 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Jeremy Huntwork <jhuntwork@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2006-05-03 21:38:35 +0000 |
| commit | 0b37960b44cc20d9020d0d1c88362dbf718c8a55 (patch) | |
| tree | 52d21ebcc57104c658c13172b0bfba4f86193479 | |
| parent | 2914ab8c7ae6e23d0b8875e38afb6ab19de1b8cc (diff) | |
Updated stripping notes to reflect current findings.
Resolves ticket #1657.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7586 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter05/stripping.xml | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/strippingagain.xml | 2 |
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 0b911f825..b33303cae 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ <para>May 3, 2006</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current + findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent leakage reports.</para> </listitem> diff --git a/chapter05/stripping.xml b/chapter05/stripping.xml index 99c95fa82..6a8139033 100644 --- a/chapter05/stripping.xml +++ b/chapter05/stripping.xml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <para>The steps in this section are optional, but if the LFS partition is rather small, it is beneficial to learn that unnecessary items can be removed. - The executables and libraries built so far contain about 130 MB of unneeded + The executables and libraries built so far contain about 70 MB of unneeded debugging symbols. Remove those symbols with:</para> <screen><userinput>strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/* @@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*</userinput></screen> ones would be destroyed and the toolchain packages would need to be built all over again.</para> - <para>To save another 30 MB, remove the documentation:</para> + <para>To save nearly 20 MB more, remove the documentation:</para> <screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{info,man}</userinput></screen> - <para>There will now be at least 850 MB of free space on the LFS file - system that can be used to build and install Glibc in the next phase. - If you can build and install Glibc, you can build and install the rest - too.</para> + <para>At this point, you should have at least 850 MB of free space in + <envar>$LFS</envar> that can be used to build and install Glibc in the + next phase. If you can build and install Glibc, you can build and install + the rest too.</para> </sect1> diff --git a/chapter06/strippingagain.xml b/chapter06/strippingagain.xml index 6ca4196eb..74e351799 100644 --- a/chapter06/strippingagain.xml +++ b/chapter06/strippingagain.xml @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <para>If the intended user is not a programmer and does not plan to do any debugging on the system software, the system size can be decreased - by about 200 MB by removing the debugging symbols from binaries and + by about 90 MB by removing the debugging symbols from binaries and libraries. This causes no inconvenience other than not being able to debug the software fully anymore.</para> |