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diff --git a/chapter05/stripping.xml b/chapter05/stripping.xml index 935f848e6..586df1089 100644 --- a/chapter05/stripping.xml +++ b/chapter05/stripping.xml @@ -7,29 +7,9 @@ <title>Stripping</title> <?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?> -<para>The steps in this section are optional, but if your LFS partition is -rather small, you will be glad to learn that you can remove some unnecessary -things. The executables and libraries you have 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>The last 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 -<parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> on the libraries -- the static ones -would be destroyed and you would have to build the three toolchain packages -all over again.</para> - -<para>To save another 30 MB, you can remove all the documentation:</para> - <screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{doc,info,man}</userinput></screen> -<para>You will now need to have at least 850 MB of free space on your LFS -file system to be able 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> |