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Let’s suppose that I got lib.so, I compile the binary mySoft and I link this to lib.so.
At this point, considering that everything is working as expected, It’s safe or not to take lib.so and strip it with strip -s lib.so ?
To be clear I’m not interested on linking other binaries to my lib.so after mySoft is properly generated, I’m only interested on keep mySoft working and gain some disk space and maybe a small edge in terms of performances.
Yes, it’s safe.
striponly removes symbols that are not needed (because they have already been linked). Those symbols are useful for debugging, but they are never needed just for executing the code.