Well, what I *really* ran was this:
for file in *; do if file $file | grep 'not stripped' > /dev/null; then strip $file; fi; done
That will only do actual binaries that are not stripped. I am running X
just fine right now after that...
Raul
Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:41:38AM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> > Just running strip on everything in /usr/X11R6/{bin,lib} ought to take
> > care of this if you're already installed the RPMs, right?
>
> Not a good idea.
>
> [root@xxxxxx X11R6]# du -hs .
> 193M .
> [root@xxxxxx X11R6]# find . -type f | xargs strip
>
> # All sorts of "File format not recognized" messages. I'm sure I could
> have refined the search, but what the heck.
>
> [root@xxxxxx X11R6]# du -hs .
> 57M .
>
> However, that crashed X. With a lot of "No Symbols found"
> messages. Oops.
>
> It might work better if you don't strip the modules. Anyone want to
> try that?
>
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