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diff --git a/chapter05/stripping.xml b/chapter05/stripping.xml index 5e7d7a00a..dcafa39da 100644 --- a/chapter05/stripping.xml +++ b/chapter05/stripping.xml @@ -7,13 +7,32 @@ <title>Stripping</title> <?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?> -<para>Strip the programs and libraries:</para> +<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 debugging symbols. Remove those symbols +with:</para> <screen><userinput>strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/* strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*</userinput></screen> -<para>Remove the documentation:</para> +<para>The last of the above commands will skip some twenty files, +reporting that it does not recognize their file format. Most of these +are scripts instead of binaries.</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 another 30 MB, remove the documentation:</para> <screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{doc,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> + </sect1> + |