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[b06ca36] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[81fd230] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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[ddd5542] | 7 |
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[3c928f1] | 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-strippingagain">
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[ddd5542] | 9 | <?dbhtml filename="strippingagain.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Stripping Again</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>If the intended user is not a programmer and does not plan to do
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| 14 | any debugging on the system software, the system size can be decreased
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[0b37960] | 15 | by about 90 MB by removing the debugging symbols from binaries and
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[ddd5542] | 16 | libraries. This causes no inconvenience other than not being able to
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| 17 | debug the software fully anymore.</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>Most people who use the command mentioned below do not
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| 20 | experience any difficulties. However, it is easy to make a typo and
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| 21 | render the new system unusable, so before running the
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| 22 | <command>strip</command> command, it is a good idea to make a
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| 23 | backup of the LFS system in its current state.</para>
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| 24 |
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[72031fe0] | 25 | <para>First back up some libraries who's debug symbols are needed when
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| 26 | running regression tests in BLFS packages:</para>
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[6c8a79a] | 27 |
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[72031fe0] | 28 | <!-- also of interest are libgfortan, libgo, libgomp, and libobjc from gcc -->
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| 29 | <screen><userinput>save_libs="ld- libatomic libc- libcilkrts libitm libmpx libpthread"
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| 30 | save_libs="$save_libs libquadmath libsanitizer libstdc++ libthread_db libvtv"
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[6c8a79a] | 31 |
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| 32 | mkdir -p /var/dbg/lib /var/dbg/usr/lib
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| 33 |
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| 34 | for lib in $save_libs
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| 35 | do
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| 36 | find /usr/lib -name ${lib}*so* -type f -exec cp {} /var/dbg/usr/lib \;
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| 37 | find /lib -name ${lib}*so* -type f -exec cp {} /var/dbg/lib \;
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| 38 | done</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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[ddd5542] | 40 | <para>Before performing the stripping, take special care to ensure that
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| 41 | none of the binaries that are about to be stripped are running. If
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| 42 | unsure whether the user entered chroot with the command given in
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| 43 | <xref linkend="ch-system-chroot" role=","/> first exit from
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| 44 | chroot:</para>
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[3c928f1] | 45 |
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[dde039d] | 46 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>logout</userinput></screen>
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[3c928f1] | 47 |
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[ddd5542] | 48 | <para>Then reenter it with:</para>
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[3c928f1] | 49 |
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[3dc9543] | 50 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>chroot $LFS /tools/bin/env -i \
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[3c928f1] | 51 | HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
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[3dc9543] | 52 | PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \
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[3c928f1] | 53 | /tools/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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[ddd5542] | 55 | <para>Now the binaries and libraries can be safely stripped:</para>
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[3c928f1] | 56 |
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[4d97563] | 57 | <screen><userinput>/tools/bin/find /usr/lib -type f -name \*.a \
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[05797fe] | 58 | -exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-debug {} ';'
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| 59 |
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| 60 | /tools/bin/find /lib /usr/lib -type f -name \*.so* \
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| 61 | -exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-unneeded {} ';'
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| 62 |
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| 63 | /tools/bin/find /{bin,sbin} /usr/{bin,sbin,libexec} -type f \
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| 64 | -exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-all {} ';'</userinput></screen>
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[3c928f1] | 65 |
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[ddd5542] | 66 | <para>A large number of files will be reported as having their file
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| 67 | format not recognized. These warnings can be safely ignored. These
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| 68 | warnings indicate that those files are scripts instead of
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| 69 | binaries.</para>
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[6c8a79a] | 70 |
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| 71 | <para>If desired, restore the saved libraries with the debug data
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| 72 | intact. The files can restored now or just held for later use. Note
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| 73 | that several of the files cannot be copied directly after rebooting
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| 74 | to the new LFS system. Later use requires booting to another system,
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| 75 | mounting the LFS partition, and then copying the files.</para>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <screen><userinput>cp -av /var/dbg/lib/* /lib
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| 78 | cp -av /var/dbg/usr/lib/* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
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| 79 |
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[3c928f1] | 80 | </sect1>
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