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 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - About
+debugging symbols: Removed info. about stripping /static. Man: Added sed
+statement to prevent groff from using SGR escape sequences.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>September 1st, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Install all
+software as an unprivileged user: Added $CC='gcc -s' to omit the
+compilation of symbols in static packages.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>August 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Makedev:

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 LFS=/mnt/lfs
 LC_ALL=POSIX
+export LFS LC_ALL
+CC='gcc -s'
+export LFS LC_ALL CC
 EOF
 source ~/.bash_profile</userinput></screen></para>
 …
 <para>This profile makes sure the umask is set to 022 so newly created
 files and directories will have the correct permissions. It is advisable
 to keep this setting throughout your LFS installation. Also, the $LFS
+and $LC_ALL environment variables are set. $LFS has been explained in
 previous chapters already. $LC_ALL is a variable that is used for
+to keep this setting throughout your LFS installation. Also, the $LFS,
+$LC_ALL, and $CC environment variables are set. $LFS has been explained
+in previous chapters already. $LC_ALL is a variable that is used for
 internationalization.</para>
 …
 in the chroot environment.</para>
+<para>$CC is a variable we set in order to prevent debugging symbols from
+being compiled into our static packages. By omitting these symbols during
+the linking stage of compilation, we save hard drive space and decrease
+our the build time.</para>
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 binary) run <userinput>strip --strip-debug filename</userinput>. Wildcards
 can be used to strip debugging symbols from multiple files (use something
 like <userinput>strip --strip-debug $LFS/usr/bin/*</userinput>).
+Most people will probably never use a debugger on software, so by
 removing those symbols a lot of disk space can be regained.</para>
+like <userinput>strip --strip-debug $LFS/usr/bin/*</userinput>). Most
+people will probably never use a debugger on software, so by removing
+those symbols a lot of disk space can be regained.</para>
 <para>For your convenience, chapter 9 includes one simple command to strip
+all debugging symbols from all programs and libraries on your
+system. If you are short on diskspace you can start with stripping
+all the files under <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename></para>
+<para>You might find additional information in the optimization hint which can
+be found at <ulink url="&hints-root;optimization.txt"/>.</para>
+all debugging symbols from the programs and libraries on your system. You
+might find additional information in the optimization hint which can be
+found at <ulink url="&hints-root;optimization.txt"/>.</para>
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 of our programs.</para>
+<para><userinput>sed -e '/^NROFF/s/-mandoc/-c -mandoc/'</userinput>:
+This prevents groff from using SGR (Set Graphics Rendition) escape
+sequences on our man pages.</para>
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 <para><screen><userinput>PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/bin \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure -default -confdir=/etc &&
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;./configure -default -confdir=/etc &amp;&amp;
 make &amp;&amp;
+cp src/man.conf{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
+sed -e '/^NROFF/s/-mandoc/-c -mandoc/' \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;src/man.conf.backup > src/man.conf &amp;&amp;
 make install</userinput></screen></para>

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 <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml">
 <!ENTITY version "20020831">
 <!ENTITY releasedate "August 31th, 2002">
+<!ENTITY version "20020901">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "September 1st, 2002">
 <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org">

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