Author: bdubbs
Date: Fri Aug 2 16:56:29 2013
New Revision: 11569
Log:
Added sections on stripping and removing .la files to
Notes on Buiiding Software in the Introduction.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml Fri Aug 2
13:27:17 2013 (r11568)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/important/building-notes.xml Fri Aug 2
16:56:29 2013 (r11569)
@@ -359,4 +359,36 @@
</sect2>
+ <sect2 id="stripping">
+ <title>Stripping One More Time</title>
+
+ <para>In LFS, stripping of debugging symbols was discussed a couple of
+ times. When building BLFS packages, there are generally no special
+ instructions that discuss stripping again. It is probably not a good
+ idea to strip an executable or a library while it is in use, so exiting
+ any windowing environment is a good idea. Then you can do:</para>
+
+ <screen><userinput>find /{,usr/}{bin,lib,sbin} -type f -exec strip
--strip-unneeded {} \;</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>If you install programs in other directories such as /opt or
/usr/local,
+ you may want to strip the files there too.</para>
+
+ <para>For more information on stripping, see <ulink
+
url="http://www.technovelty.org/linux/stripping-shared-libraries.html"/>.</para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="libtool">
+ <title>Libtool files</title>
+
+ <para>One of the side effects of packages that use Autotools, including
+ libtool, is that they create many files with an .la extention. These
+ files are not needed in an LFS environment. If there are conflicts with
+ pkgconfig entries, they can actually prevent successful builds. You
+ may want to consider removing these files periodically:</para>
+
+ <screen><userinput>find /lib /usr/lib -name \*.la
-delete</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
</sect1>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Fri Aug 2 13:27:17
2013 (r11568)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Fri Aug 2 16:56:29
2013 (r11569)
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
<para>August 2nd, 2013</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Added sections on stripping and removing
+ .la files to Notes on Buiiding Software in the Introduction.
+ Fixes <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;3764">#3764</ulink></para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Update to libdiscid-0.5.2.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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