[673b0d8] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[b4cd3c5] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[673b0d8] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-stripping">
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[b4cd3c5] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Stripping</title>
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[673b0d8] | 12 |
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[b4cd3c5] | 13 | <para>The steps in this section are optional, but if the LFS partition is
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| 14 | rather small, it is beneficial to learn that unnecessary items can be removed.
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| 15 | The executables and libraries built so far contain about 130 MB of unneeded
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| 16 | debugging symbols. Remove those symbols with:</para>
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[3d36131c] | 17 |
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[673b0d8] | 18 | <screen><userinput>strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/*
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| 19 | strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*</userinput></screen>
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| 20 |
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[b4cd3c5] | 21 | <para>The last of the above commands will skip some twenty files,
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| 22 | reporting that it does not recognize their file format. Most of these
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| 23 | are scripts instead of binaries.</para>
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[81fd230] | 24 |
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[b4cd3c5] | 25 | <para>Take care <emphasis>not</emphasis> to use
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| 26 | <parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> on the libraries. The static
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| 27 | ones would be destroyed and the toolchain packages would need to be
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| 28 | built all over again.</para>
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[81fd230] | 29 |
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[b4cd3c5] | 30 | <para>To save another 30 MB, remove the documentation:</para>
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[3d36131c] | 31 |
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[569fc0b] | 32 | <screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{info,man}</userinput></screen>
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[673b0d8] | 33 |
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[b4cd3c5] | 34 | <para>There will now be at least 850 MB of free space on the LFS file
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| 35 | system that can be used to build and install Glibc in the next phase.
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| 36 | If you can build and install Glibc, you can build and install the rest
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| 37 | too.</para>
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[81fd230] | 38 |
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[673b0d8] | 39 | </sect1>
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