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
---
 chapter06/strippingagain.xml | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter06/strippingagain.xml')

diff --git a/chapter06/strippingagain.xml b/chapter06/strippingagain.xml
index e0531df3e..f6c5fa2ec 100644
--- a/chapter06/strippingagain.xml
+++ b/chapter06/strippingagain.xml
@@ -1,24 +1,54 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
 <sect1 id="ch-system-strippingagain">
 <title>Stripping Again</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="strippingagain.html"?>
 
-<para>Exit from chroot:</para>
+<para>If the intended user is not a programmer and does not plan to do
+any debugging on the system software, the system size can be decreased
+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 anymore.</para>
+
+<para>Most people who use the command mentioned below do not
+experience any difficulties. However, it is easy to make a typo and
+render the new system unusable, so before running the 
+<command>strip</command> command, it is a good idea to make a
+backup of the current situation.</para>
+
+<para>Before performing the stripping, take special care to ensure that
+none of the binaries that are about to be stripped are running. If
+unsure whether the user entered chroot with the command given in
+<xref linkend="ch-system-chroot" role=","/> first exit from
+chroot:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>logout</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Reenter with:</para>
+<para>Then reenter it 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>Strip the binaries and libraries:</para>
+<para>Now the binaries and libraries can be safely stripped:</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. These
+warnings indicate that those files are scripts instead of
+binaries.</para>
+
+<para>If disk space is very tight, the
+<parameter>--strip-all</parameter> option can be used on the binaries
+in <filename class="directory">/{,usr/}{bin,sbin}</filename> to gain
+several more megabytes. Do not use this option on libraries&mdash;they will
+be destroyed.</para>
+
 </sect1>
 
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