Changeset 0f8922e for introduction/important/building-notes.xml

Timestamp:

03/24/2023 08:44:09 AM (13 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

218e13c

Parents:

0de5b82f (diff), 9b33190 (diff)
Note: this is a merge changeset, the changes displayed below correspond to the merge itself.
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Message:

Merge branch 'trunk' of git.linuxfromscratch.org:blfs into trunk

File:

• introduction/important/building-notes.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

introduction/important/building-notes.xml

@@ -613 +613 @@
       entries. The <command>mv</command> just removes the destination file from
       the directory but does not touch its content, so that it satisfies the
-      condition for the kernel to use the old (deleted) file. The script below
-      is just an example.
+      condition for the kernel to use the old (deleted) file.
+      But this approach can detach hard links into duplicated copies,
+      causing a bloat which is obviously unwanted as we are stripping to
+      reduce system size.  If two files in a same file system share the
+      same inode number, they are hard links to each other and we should
+      reconstruct the link.  The script below is just an example.
       It should be run as the &root; user:
     </para>
@@ -626 +630 @@
 fi
 
+last_fs_inode=
+last_file=
+
 { find /usr/lib -type f -name '*.so*' ! -name '*dbg'
   find /usr/lib -type f -name '*.a'
   find /usr/{bin,sbin,libexec} -type f
-} |  while read file; do
+} | xargs stat -c '%m %i %n' | sort | while read file; do
        if ! readelf -h $file >/dev/null 2>&amp;1; then continue; fi
        if file $file | grep --quiet --invert-match 'not stripped'; then continue; fi
+
+       if [ "$fs $inode" = "$last_fs_inode" ]; then
+         ln -f $last_file $file;
+         continue;
+       fi
 
        cp --preserve $file    ${file}.tmp
        strip --strip-unneeded ${file}.tmp
        mv ${file}.tmp $file
-     done</literal>
+
+       last_fs_inode="$fs $inode"
+       last_file=$file
+done</literal>
 EOF
 chmod 744 /usr/sbin/strip-all.sh</userinput></screen>