Changeset 6e41459 for chapter05/stripping.xml

Timestamp:

08/08/2004 02:10:39 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

6.0

Children:

ef13657

Parents:

78349b7

Message:

Completed global edits for upcoming 6.0 release

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/testing/BOOK@3999 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter05/stripping.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter05/stripping.xml

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 <?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?>
 
-<para>The steps in this section are optional, but if your LFS partition is
-rather small, you will be glad to learn that you can remove some unnecessary
-things. The executables and libraries you have built so far contain about 130
-MB of unneeded debugging symbols. Remove those symbols with:</para>
+<para>The steps in this section are optional, but if the LFS partition
+is rather small, it is beneficial to learn that unnecessary items can
+be removed. The executables and libraries built so far contain about
+130 MB of unneeded debugging symbols. Remove those symbols
+with:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/*
 strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The last of the above commands will skip some twenty files, reporting
-that it doesn't recognize their file format. Most of them are scripts instead
-of binaries.</para>
+<para>The last of the above commands will skip some twenty files,
+reporting that it does not recognize their file format. Most of these
+are scripts instead of binaries.</para>
 
 <para>Take care <emphasis>not</emphasis> to use
-<parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> on the libraries -- the static ones
-would be destroyed and you would have to build the three toolchain packages
-all over again.</para>
+<parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> on the libraries.  The static
+ones would be destroyed and the toolchain packages would need to be
+built all over again.</para>
 
-<para>To save another 30 MB, you can remove all the documentation:</para>
+<para>To save another 30 MB, remove all the documentation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{doc,info,man}</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>You will now need to have at least 850 MB of free space on your LFS
-file system to be able to build and install Glibc in the next phase. If you can
-build and install Glibc, you can build and install the rest too.</para>
+<para>There will now be at least 850 MB of free space on the LFS file
+system that can be used to build and install Glibc in the next phase.
+If you can build and install Glibc, you can build and install the rest
+too.</para>
 
 </sect1>
+