Better strip command in chapter 9

[gerard@…]

find \( ! -fstype proc -o ! -fstype devpts -o ! -fstype devfs \) -perm +6111 -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip -s '{}' ';'

see if this works as expected (ie: should skip /proc /dev/pts or /dev alltogether when devfs is in use)

[gerard@…]

Hmpf not working as I want it to, i'm going to concentrate on other things

[gerard@…]

another candidate: find / -path /proc -prune -o -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'

[gerard@…]

Simplicity: assume that we got our stuff in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /lib and /usr/lib

If people use non-standard locations, they can add their dirs themselves:

find /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin /lib /usr/lib -perm +6111 -type f -exec /usr/bin/strip -g '{}' ';'

[gerard@…]

new command: find $LFS/{,usr,usr/local}/{bin,sbin,lib} -type f \

-exec /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}'

[gerard@…]

perhaps not _the_ best command, but for now it'll do

[gerard@…]

Jeremy whipped up a nice script to strip as much as possible. It'll check if files are static libs and don't strip too much from those, etc. It has to be run outside of chroot if you plan to strip libraries, else you'll destroy the libraries that the 'strip' program uses (libc.so.6 for example).

Inside chroot you could run it and just disable to 'stripage' of library files. Perhaps we can slightly modify this to easily change the strip option to just -g intead of --strip-unneeded when we're inside chroot.

Anyways, script put in bugzilla, have a look, we'll deal with it later

[gerard@…]

strip script

[gerard@…]

Never mind that script (hehe does anybody remember what I'm talking about...it's been a while). The current find/strip combinations work good enough, we're not aiming to reclaim every byte by making things more complicated. How it's done now is a good enough of a tradeof.

[markh@…]

ok. current command is good enough.