| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950515253545556575859606162636465666768697071 | <chapter id="chapter05"><title>Preparing the LFS system</title><?dbhtml filename="chapter05.html" dir="chapter05"?>&c5-introduction;&c5-whystatic;&c5-creatingtoolsdir;&c5-addinguser;&c5-settingenviron;&c5-binutils-pass1;&c5-gcc-pass1;&c5-kernelheaders;&c5-glibc;&c5-lockingglibc;&c5-tcl;&c5-expect;&c5-dejagnu;&c5-gcc-pass2;&c5-binutils-pass2;&c5-gawk;&c5-coreutils;&c5-bzip2;&c5-gzip;&c5-diffutils;&c5-findutils;&c5-make;&c5-grep;&c5-sed;&c5-gettext;&c5-ncurses;&c5-patch;&c5-tar;&c5-texinfo;&c5-bash;&c5-utillinux;&c5-perl;<sect1 id="ch05-stripping"><title>Stripping</title><?dbhtml filename="stripping.html" dir="chapter05"?><para>If your LFS partition is rather small, you will be glad to learn that youcan throw away some unnecessary things. The executables and libraries you havebuilt so far contain about 130 MB of unneeded debugging symbols. Remove thosesymbols like this:</para><para><screen><userinput>strip --strip-unneeded /tools/{,s}bin/*strip --strip-debug /tools/lib/*</userinput></screen></para><para>The first of the above commands will skip some twenty files, reportingthat it doesn't recognize their file format. Most of them are scripts insteadof binaries.</para><para>Take care <emphasis>not</emphasis> to use<userinput>--strip-unneeded</userinput> on the libraries -- they would bedestroyed and you would have to build Glibc all over again.</para><para>To save another couple of megabytes, you can throw away the documentationand some of the bigger unneeded programs:</para><para><screen><userinput>rm -rf /tools/{,share/}{doc,info,man}rm /tools/bin/{addr2line,gprof,nm,size,strings,strip}</userinput></screen></para><para>You will now need to have at least 700 MB of free space on your LFSfilesystem to be able to build and install Glibc in the next phase.</para></sect1></chapter>
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