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11 <title>Finishing Temporary Tools</title>
14 The steps in this section are optional. Skip this section entirely
15 if you are not really short on disk space and do not want to create
16 a backup of the temporary tools.
20 The following steps are performed from outside the chroot
21 environment. That means, you have to leave the chroot environment
22 first before continuing. The reason for that is to:
26 make sure that objects are not in use while they are
32 get access to file system locations outside of the chroot
33 environment to store/read the backup archive which should
34 not be placed within the
35 <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename> hierarchy for
43 Leave the chroot environment and unmount the kernel virtual file
48 <para>All of the following instructions are executed by
49 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. Take extra
50 care about the commands you're going to run as mistakes
51 here can modify your host system. Be aware that the
52 environment variable <envar>LFS</envar> is set for user
53 <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem> by default
54 but it might <emphasis>not</emphasis> be set for
55 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>. Whenever
56 commands are to be executed by <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>,
57 make sure you have set <envar>LFS</envar> accordingly.
58 This has been discussed in <xref linkend='ch-partitioning-aboutlfs'/>.
62 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>exit
63 umount $LFS/dev{/pts,}
64 umount $LFS/{sys,proc,run}</userinput></screen>
67 <title>Stripping</title>
69 <para>If the LFS partition is rather small, it is good to
70 know that unnecessary items can be removed. The executables and
71 libraries built so far contain a little over 90 MB of unneeded debugging
74 <para>Strip off debugging symbols from binaries:</para>
75 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>strip --strip-debug $LFS/usr/lib/*
76 strip --strip-unneeded $LFS/usr/{,s}bin/*
77 strip --strip-unneeded $LFS/tools/bin/*</userinput></screen>
79 <para>These commands will skip a number of files reporting that it does not
80 recognize their file format. Most of these are scripts instead of binaries.
81 <!--Note that we use the <command>strip</command> program built in
82 <quote>Binutils pass 2</quote>, since it is the one that knows how to strip
83 our cross-compiled programs.--></para>
85 <para>Take care <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> to use
86 <parameter>--strip-unneeded</parameter> on the libraries. The static
87 ones would be destroyed and the toolchain packages would need to be
88 built all over again.</para>
90 <para>To save more space (slightly more than 35 MB), remove the documentation:</para>
92 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>rm -rf $LFS/usr/share/{info,man,doc}</userinput></screen>
94 <para>The libtool .la files are only useful when linking with static
95 libraries. They are unneeded, and potentially harmful, when using dynamic
96 shared libraries, specially when using non-autotools build systems.
97 Remove those files now:</para>
99 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>find $LFS/usr/{lib,libexec} -name \*.la -delete</userinput></screen>
101 <para>At this point, you should have at least 5 GB of free space on the
102 chroot partition that can be used to build and install Glibc and GCC in
103 the next phase. If you can build and install Glibc, you can build and install
104 the rest too. You can check the free disk space with the command
105 <command>df -h $LFS</command>.</para>
110 <title>Backup</title>
113 Now that the essential tools have been created, its time to think about
114 a backup. When every check has passed successfully in the previously
115 built packages, your temporary tools are in a good state and might be
116 backed up for later reuse. In case of fatal failures in the subsequent
117 chapters, it often turns out that removing everything and starting over
118 (more carefully) is the best option to recover. Unfortunatly, all the
119 temporary tools will be removed, too. To avoid spending extra time to
120 redo something which has been built successfully, prepare a backup.
124 Make sure you have at least 600 MB free disk space (the source tarballs
125 will be included in the backup archive) in the home directory of user
126 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>.
130 Create the backup archive by running the following command:
133 <screen role="nodump" revision="sysv"><userinput>cd $LFS &&
134 tar -cJpf $HOME/lfs-temp-tools-&version;.tar.xz .</userinput></screen>
136 <screen role="nodump" revision="systemd"><userinput>cd $LFS &&
137 tar -cJpf $HOME/lfs-temp-tools-&versiond;.tar.xz .</userinput></screen>
140 Replace <envar>$HOME</envar> by a directory of your choice if you
141 do not want to have the backup stored in <systemitem
142 class="username">root</systemitem>'s home directory.
147 <title>Restore</title>
150 In case some mistakes have been made and you need to start over, you can
151 use this backup to restore the temporary tools and save some recovery time.
152 Since the sources are located under
153 <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename>, they are included in the
154 backup archive as well, so they do not need to be downloaded again. After
155 checking that <filename class="directory">$LFS</filename> is set properly,
156 restore the backup by executing the following commands:
159 <!-- Make the following look different so users don't blindly run the
160 restore when they don't need to. -->
162 <screen role="nodump" revision="sysv"><computeroutput>cd $LFS &&
163 rm -rf ./* &&
164 tar -xpf $HOME/lfs-temp-tools-&version;.tar.xz</computeroutput></screen>
166 <screen role="nodump" revision="systemd"><computeroutput>cd $LFS &&
167 rm -rf ./* &&
168 tar -xpf $HOME/lfs-temp-tools-&versiond;.tar.xz</computeroutput></screen>
171 Again, double check that the environment has been setup properly
172 and continue building the rest of the system.
177 If you left the chroot environment either to strip off debug
178 symbols, create a backup or restart building using a restore,
179 remember to mount the kernel virtual filesystems now again as
180 described in <xref linkend='ch-tools-kernfs'/> and re-enter
181 the chroot environment (see <xref linkend='ch-tools-chroot'/>)
182 again before continuing.