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Add make install-strip target.

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Peter Eisentraut
2002-04-10 16:45:25 +00:00
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<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.75 2002/04/03 05:39:28 petere Exp $ -->
<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.76 2002/04/10 16:45:25 petere Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
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be granted.
</para>
<para>
You can use <literal>gmake install-strip</literal> instead of
<literal>gmake install</literal> to strip the executable files and
libraries as they are installed. This will save some space. If
you built with debugging support, stripping will effectively
remove the debugging support, so it should only be done if
debugging is no longer needed. <literal>install-strip</literal>
tries to do a reasonable job saving space, but it does not have
perfect knowledge of how to strip every unneeded byte from an
executable file, so if you want to save all the disk space you
possibly can, you will have to do manual work.
</para>
<para>
If you built the Perl or Python interfaces and you were not the
root user when you executed the above command then that part of