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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd">
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| 3 | <sect1 id="ch-system-strippingagain">
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| 4 | <title>Stripping Again</title>
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| 5 | <?dbhtml filename="strippingagain.html"?>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <para>If the intended user is not a programmer and does not plan to do
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| 8 | any debugging on the system software, the system size can be decreased
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| 9 | by about 200 MB by removing the debugging symbols from binaries and
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| 10 | libraries. This causes no inconvenience other than not being able to
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| 11 | debug the software fully anymore.</para>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>Most people who use the command mentioned below do not
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| 14 | experience any difficulties. However, it is easy to make a typo and
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| 15 | render the new system unusable, so before running the strip command,
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| 16 | it is a good idea to make a backup of the current
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| 17 | situation.</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>Before performing the stripping, take special care to ensure that
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| 20 | none of the binaries that are about to be stripped are running. If
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| 21 | unsure whether the user entered chroot with the command given in
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| 22 | <xref linkend="ch-system-chroot" role=","/> first exit from
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| 23 | chroot:</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <screen><userinput>logout</userinput></screen>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>Then reenter it with:</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <screen><userinput>chroot $LFS /tools/bin/env -i \
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| 30 | HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
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| 31 | PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin \
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| 32 | /tools/bin/bash --login</userinput></screen>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>Now the binaries and libraries can be safely stripped:</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <screen><userinput>/tools/bin/find /{,usr/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f \
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| 37 | -exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'</userinput></screen>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>A large number of files will be reported as having their file
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| 40 | format not recognized. These warnings can be safely ignored. These
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| 41 | warnings indicate that those files are scripts instead of
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| 42 | binaries.</para>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>If disk space is very tight, the
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| 45 | <parameter>--strip-all</parameter> options can be used on the binaries
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| 46 | in <filename class="directory">/{,usr/}{bin,sbin}</filename> to gain
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| 47 | several more megabytes. Do not use this option on libraries—they will
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| 48 | be destroyed.</para>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | </sect1>
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| 51 |
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