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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  2. <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  3. "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  4. <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  5. %general-entities;
  6. ]>
  7. <sect1 id="ch-system-strippingagain">
  8. <?dbhtml filename="strippingagain.html"?>
  9. <title>Stripping Again</title>
  10. <para>This section is optional. If the intended user is not a
  11. programmer and does not plan to do
  12. any debugging on the system software, the system size can be decreased
  13. by about 90 MB by removing the debugging symbols from binaries and
  14. libraries. This causes no inconvenience other than not being able to
  15. debug the software fully anymore.</para>
  16. <para>Most people who use the commands mentioned below do not
  17. experience any difficulties. However, it is easy to make a typo and
  18. render the new system unusable, so before running the
  19. <command>strip</command> commands, it is a good idea to make a
  20. backup of the LFS system in its current state.</para>
  21. <para>First place the debugging symbols for selected libraries
  22. in separate files. This debugging information is needed if running
  23. regression tests that use <ulink
  24. url='&blfs-book;/general/valgrind.html'>valgrind</ulink> or <ulink
  25. url='&blfs-book;/general/gdb.html'>gdb</ulink> later in BLFS.
  26. </para>
  27. <!-- also of interest are libgfortan, libgo, libgomp, and libobjc from gcc -->
  28. <!--<screen><userinput>save_lib="ld-2.25.so libc-2.25.so libpthread-2.25.so libthread_db-1.0.so"-->
  29. <screen><userinput>save_lib="ld-&glibc-version;.so libc-&glibc-version;.so libpthread-&glibc-version;.so libthread_db-&libthread_db-version;.so"
  30. cd /lib
  31. for LIB in $save_lib; do
  32. objcopy --only-keep-debug $LIB $LIB.dbg
  33. strip --strip-unneeded $LIB
  34. objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$LIB.dbg $LIB
  35. done
  36. save_usrlib="libquadmath.so.&libquadmath-version; libstdc++.so.&libstdcpp-version;
  37. libitm.so.&libitm-version; libatomic.so.&libatomic-version;" <!-- libcilkrts.so.&libcilkrts-version;-->
  38. cd /usr/lib
  39. for LIB in $save_usrlib; do
  40. objcopy --only-keep-debug $LIB $LIB.dbg
  41. strip --strip-unneeded $LIB
  42. objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$LIB.dbg $LIB
  43. done
  44. unset LIB save_lib save_usrlib</userinput></screen>
  45. <!-- <para>Before performing the stripping, take special care to ensure that
  46. none of the binaries that are about to be stripped are running:</para>
  47. <screen role="nodump"><userinput>exec /tools/bin/bash</userinput></screen>
  48. <para>Now the binaries and libraries can be safely stripped:</para>
  49. -->
  50. <para>Now the binaries and libraries can be stripped:</para>
  51. <screen><userinput>find /usr/lib -type f -name \*.a \
  52. -exec strip --strip-debug {} ';'
  53. find /lib /usr/lib -type f -name \*.so* ! -name \*dbg \
  54. -exec strip --strip-unneeded {} ';'
  55. find /{bin,sbin} /usr/{bin,sbin,libexec} -type f \
  56. -exec strip --strip-all {} ';'</userinput></screen>
  57. <para>A large number of files will be reported as having their file
  58. format not recognized. These warnings can be safely ignored. These
  59. warnings indicate that those files are scripts instead of
  60. binaries.</para>
  61. </sect1>