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[c439b8a] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" |
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ |
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[02095ae] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-stripping"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="stripping.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Stripping</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <para os="a">If the intended user is not a programmer and does not plan to do |
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| 14 | any debugging on the system software, the system size can be decreased |
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| 15 | by about 200 MB by removing the debugging symbols from binaries and |
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| 16 | libraries. This causes no inconvenience other than not being able to |
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| 17 | debug the software fully anymore.</para> |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | <para os="b">Most people who use the command mentioned below do not |
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| 20 | experience any difficulties. However, it is easy to make a typo and |
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| 21 | render the new system unusable, so before running the |
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| 22 | <command>strip</command> command, it is a good idea to make a |
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| 23 | backup of the current situation.</para> |
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| 24 | |
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[586feb7] | 25 | <screen os="c"><userinput>find ${CLFS}/{,usr/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f \ |
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| 26 | -exec ${CLFS_TARGET}-strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'</userinput></screen> |
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| 28 | <para os="i">A large number of files will be reported as having their file |
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| 29 | format not recognized. These warnings can be safely ignored. These |
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| 30 | warnings indicate that those files are scripts instead of |
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| 31 | binaries.</para> |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | <para os="j">If disk space is very tight, the <option>--strip-all</option> |
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| 34 | option can be used on the binaries in <filename |
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| 35 | class="directory">/{,usr/}{bin,sbin}</filename> to gain several more |
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| 36 | megabytes. Do not use this option on libraries—they will be |
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| 37 | destroyed.</para> |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | </sect1> |
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