Commit 8101c9a3 authored by Mike Frysinger's avatar Mike Frysinger Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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linux: strip installed modules 



The installed kernel modules should have useless build cruft stripped out
of them.  On my system, a default build went from a very unreasonable 30MB
to a normal 3MB (on disk) and from 14MB to 3MB when compressed due to the
info stored in the kernel modules alone.

[Peter: don't hardcode binutils strip specific options]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent bab71ad4

Makefile

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@@ -418,6 +418,9 @@ ifneq ($(BR2_HAVE_DOCUMENTATION),y) 
	rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/gtk-doc

endif

	find $(TARGET_DIR) -type f -perm +111 | xargs $(STRIPCMD) 2>/dev/null || true

	find $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/modules -type f -name '*.ko' | \

		xargs -r $(STRIPCMD) -R .comment -R .note -g --strip-unneeded



	mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/etc

	# Mandatory configuration file and auxilliary cache directory

	# for recent versions of ldconfig