The current (Merlin and Ladybird) shared libraries (on Solaris, at least)
are much larger than they need to be. The command "strip -x" should be
run on the non-debug versions of these libraries during the build process
to remove debugging and line number information.

Demonstration case - a recent merlin build, lib/sparc/motif21/libmawt.so.

unstripped: 1,036,756 bytes
strip -x : 791,088 bytes

Savings: ~23%

I don't believe that there is any loss of functionality associated
with doing this.

Checked b18 in ladybird, the first build with these changes, and
only the executables were affected by the fix, none of the .so
files were stripped.

david.katleman@Eng 2001-03-01