RE: strip makes libs unusable

["Jones, Clay" <CJones at microtest dot com>]

Title: RE: strip makes libs unusable

I seem to recall that when I rebuilt the latest e2fs utilities, I made them with the ELF_SHARED option.  The resulting shared library and executables were huge though.

So I stripped mke2fs, e2fsck, and libext2fs.so.2.

Their sizes all greatly reduced, and everything worked (is working) fine.

Clay

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Harris [mailto:rodmur@maybe.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:27 PM
To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
Subject: Re: strip makes libs unusable

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 01:25:45PM -0400, Allin Cottrell elucidated:
>
> I can't claim great expertise on this, but it seems that (a)
> it's OK to strip shared libs (.so) if you want, but (b) if you

Could you actually strip a shared lib?  I'm no expert either, but I would
have figured you'd just have the same problems.  I'm too chicken to test it
on my machine. ;-)

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