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<sect1 id="ch-system-strippingagain">
<?dbhtml filename="strippingagain.html"?>
<title>Stripping Again</title>
<para>This section is optional. 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 90 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 commands 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> commands, it is a good idea to make a
backup of the LFS system in its current state.</para>
<para>First place the debugging symbols for selected libraries
in separate files. This debugging information is needed if running
regression tests that use <ulink
url='&blfs-book;/general/valgrind.html'>valgrind</ulink> or <ulink
url='&blfs-book;/general/gdb.html'>gdb</ulink> later in BLFS.
</para>
<!-- also of interest are libgfortan, libgo, libgomp, and libobjc from gcc -->
<!--<screen><userinput>save_lib="ld-2.25.so libc-2.25.so libpthread-2.25.so libthread_db-1.0.so"-->
<screen><userinput>save_lib="ld-&glibc-version;.so libc-&glibc-version;.so libpthread-&glibc-version;.so libthread_db-&libthread_db-version;.so"
cd /lib
for LIB in $save_lib; do
objcopy --only-keep-debug $LIB $LIB.dbg
strip --strip-unneeded $LIB
objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$LIB.dbg $LIB
done
save_usrlib="libquadmath.so.&libquadmath-version; libstdc++.so.&libstdcpp-version;
libmpx.so.&libmpx-version; libmpxwrappers.so.&libmpxwrap-version; libitm.so.&libitm-version;
libcilkrts.so.&libcilkrts-version; libatomic.so.&libatomic-version;"
cd /usr/lib
for LIB in $save_usrlib; do
objcopy --only-keep-debug $LIB $LIB.dbg
strip --strip-unneeded $LIB
objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$LIB.dbg $LIB
done
unset LIB save_lib save_usrlib</userinput></screen>
<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 role="nodump"><userinput>logout</userinput></screen>
<para>Then reenter it with:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chroot $LFS /tools/bin/env -i \
HOME=/root TERM=$TERM \
PS1='(lfs chroot) \u:\w\$ ' \
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \
/tools/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen>
<para>Now the binaries and libraries can be safely stripped:</para>
<screen><userinput>/tools/bin/find /usr/lib -type f -name \*.a \
-exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-debug {} ';'
/tools/bin/find /lib /usr/lib -type f \( -name \*.so* -a ! -name \*dbg \) \
-exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-unneeded {} ';'
/tools/bin/find /{bin,sbin} /usr/{bin,sbin,libexec} -type f \
-exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-all {} ';'</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>
</sect1>
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