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diff --git a/chapter05/chapter05.xml b/chapter05/chapter05.xml index a8369c913..922b125f0 100644 --- a/chapter05/chapter05.xml +++ b/chapter05/chapter05.xml @@ -35,5 +35,36 @@ &c5-utillinux; &c5-perl; +<sect1 id="ch05-stripping"> +<title>Stripping</title> +<?dbhtml filename="stripping.html" dir="chapter05"?> + +<para>If your LFS partition is rather small, you will be glad to learn that you +can throw away some unnecessary things. The executables and libraries you have +built so far contain about 130 MB of unneeded debugging symbols. Remove those +symbols like this:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>strip --strip-unneeded /stage1/{,s}bin/* +strip --strip-debug /stage1/lib/*</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>The first of the above commands will skip some twenty files, reporting +that it doesn't recognize their file format. Most of them are scripts instead +of binaries.</para> + +<para>Take care <emphasis>not</emphasis> to use +<userinput>--strip-unneeded</userinput> on the libraries -- they would be +destroyed and you would have to build Glibc all over again.</para> + +<para>To save another couple of megabytes, you can throw away the documentation +and some of the bigger unneeded programs:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>rm -r /stage1/share/{doc,info,man} +rm /stage1/bin/{addr2line,gprof,nm,size,strings,strip}</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>You will now need to have at least 700 MB of free space on your LFS +filesystem to be able to build and install Glibc in the next phase.</para> + +</sect1> + </chapter> |