From 81fd230419b0cfd052b08fc1ed352bb7d49975df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:42 +0000
Subject: Trunk is now identical to Testing

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 chapter05/stripping.xml | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter05/stripping.xml')

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>
+
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