Re: [flalug] stripping libraries

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2005 - 18:09:26 EST


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, smitty wrote:

> On Saturday 29 January 2005 15:37, Eben King wrote:
> > So I've got a bunch of libraries (.so files), that "file" says are:
> >
> > ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
> >
> > I know executables can be stripped, and that generally makes them smaller
> > with no ill effects if you don't plan to use a debugger on them (I do it
> > often). Can libraries also be stripped with the same caveats?
>
> I know of no reason why not. Give it a try.

Well, that saved another 16 MB from the Firefox installation. It seems to
work, but I'll keep the source around until I'm sure.

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