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diff --git a/chapter06/strippingagain.xml b/chapter06/strippingagain.xml index 1630cd2af..932db9f6f 100644 --- a/chapter06/strippingagain.xml +++ b/chapter06/strippingagain.xml @@ -4,44 +4,21 @@ <title>Stripping again</title> <?dbhtml filename="strippingagain.html"?> -<para>If you are not a programmer and don't plan to do any debugging on your -system software, you can shrink your system by about 200 MB by removing the -debugging symbols from binaries and libraries. This causes no inconvenience -other than not being able to debug the software fully any more.</para> - -<para>Most people who use the command mentioned below don't experience any -problems. But it is easy to make a typo and render your new system unusable, so -before running the strip command it is probably a good idea to make a backup of -the current situation.</para> - -<para>If you are going to perform the stripping, special care is needed to -ensure you're not running any of the binaries that are about to be stripped. -If you're not sure whether you entered chroot with the command given in -<xref linkend="ch-system-chroot"/>, then first exit from chroot:</para> +<para>Exit from chroot:</para> <screen><userinput>logout</userinput></screen> -<para>Then reenter it with:</para> +<para>Reenter with:</para> <screen><userinput>chroot $LFS /tools/bin/env -i \ HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \ /tools/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen> -<para>Now you can safely strip the binaries and libraries:</para> +<para>Strip the binaries and libraries:</para> <screen><userinput>/tools/bin/find /{,usr/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f \ -exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'</userinput></screen> -<para>A large number of files will be reported as having their file format not -recognized. These warnings can be safely ignored, they just mean that those -files are scripts instead of binaries, no harm is done.</para> - -<para>If you are really tight on disk space, you may want to use -<parameter>--strip-all</parameter> on the binaries in -<filename class="directory">/{,usr/}{bin,sbin}</filename> to gain several more megabytes. But do -<emphasis>not</emphasis> use this option on libraries: they would be -destroyed.</para> - </sect1> |