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diff --git a/chapter05/stripping.xml b/chapter05/stripping.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d5fbd8280 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter05/stripping.xml @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> +<sect1 id="ch-tools-stripping"> +<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 +<emphasis>--strip-unneeded</emphasis> 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> |