Changeset 3c31062 for introduction/important

Timestamp:

08/02/2013 11:56:29 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

5552483f

Parents:

c4b0455

Message:

Added sections on stripping and removing .la files to
Notes on Buiiding Software in the Introduction.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@11569 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• introduction/important/building-notes.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/important/building-notes.xml

@@ -360 +360 @@
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2 id="stripping">
+    <title>Stripping One More Time</title>
+
+    <para>In LFS, stripping of debugging symbols was discussed a couple of
+    times.  When building BLFS packages, there are generally no special
+    instructions that discuss stripping again.  It is probably not a good
+    idea to strip an executable or a library while it is in use, so exiting
+    any windowing environment is a good idea.  Then you can do:</para>
+
+    <screen><userinput>find /{,usr/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f -exec strip --strip-unneeded {} \;</userinput></screen>
+    
+    <para>If you install programs in other directories such as /opt or /usr/local, 
+    you may want to strip the files there too.</para>
+
+    <para>For more information on stripping, see <ulink
+    url="http://www.technovelty.org/linux/stripping-shared-libraries.html"/>.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 id="libtool">
+    <title>Libtool files</title>
+
+    <para>One of the side effects of packages that use Autotools, including
+    libtool, is that they create many files with an .la extention.  These
+    files are not needed in an LFS environment.  If there are conflicts with
+    pkgconfig entries, they can actually prevent successful builds.  You 
+    may want to consider removing these files periodically:</para>
+
+    <screen><userinput>find /lib /usr/lib -name \*.la -delete</userinput></screen>
+    
+  </sect2>
+
 </sect1>