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author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-16 11:56:28 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-16 11:56:28 +0000 |
commit | 675606bde2ba53946537b42a5aa576692a311621 (patch) | |
tree | af20c20ce3841c16b24d0b9903af6878a4a0f5a6 /chapter05/stripping.xml | |
parent | 560065f976e371779928dbf8b9428217f3f57331 (diff) | |
parent | 1cd59612d00603c9ce773ad821a15d20bc4fa0b7 (diff) |
Split Chapter 5 into three separate chapters.
Implement a new method of cross-building the LFS tool chain
and other tools to simplify the method of isolating the
new system from the original host. This will be the start of
LFS-10.0.
Move old trunk/BOOK to branches/old-trunk.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11946 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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diff --git a/chapter05/stripping.xml b/chapter05/stripping.xml deleted file mode 100644 index dc55959bf..000000000 --- a/chapter05/stripping.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ - <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> - %general-entities; -]> - -<sect1 id="ch-tools-stripping"> - <?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?> - - <title>Stripping</title> - - <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 70 MB of unneeded - debugging symbols. Remove those symbols with:</para> - -<screen><userinput>strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/* -/usr/bin/strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*</userinput></screen> - - <para>These commands will skip a number of files, reporting that it does not - recognize their file format. Most of these are scripts instead of binaries. - Also use the system strip command to include the strip binary in /tools.</para> - - <para>Take care <emphasis>not</emphasis> to use - <parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> on the libraries. The static - ones would be destroyed and the toolchain packages would need to be - built all over again.</para> - - <para>To save more, remove the documentation:</para> - -<screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{,share}/{info,man,doc}</userinput></screen> - - <para>The libtool .la files are only useful when linking with static - libraries. They are unneeded, and potentially harmful, when using dynamic - shared libraries, specially when using also non-autotools build systems. - Remove those files now:</para> - -<screen><userinput>find /tools/{lib,libexec} -name \*.la -delete</userinput></screen> - - <para>At this point, you should have at least 3 GB of free space in - <envar>$LFS</envar> that can be used to build and install Glibc and Gcc in - the next phase. If you can build and install Glibc, you can build and install - the rest too.</para> - -</sect1> |