Strip x86 code from fat binaries
Wed, Aug 17 '05 at 8:51AM PDT • Submitted by lincd0 
Developers are starting to distribute binaries that will run on Intel-based hardware as well as PowerPC Macs. This will add about 30% to the size of the executables. To recover the disk space, you can remove the unneeded code using the command-line program ditto. 

For example, suppose Foo.app is a fat application bundle installed on a PowerPC Mac. While logged in as an admin user, you would open a Terminal window and type something like:
ditto --rsrc --arch ppc /Applications/Foo.app /Application/Foo-ppc.app
Now you have a new application called Foo-ppc.app. Test it. If it works, you can delete the original and rename the stripped version. To strip PPC code from binaries on an Intel Mac, you would change --arch ppc to --arch i386 in the above command. 

In case it's not obvious, keep in mind that this operation is not reversible. Once you strip the code for a particular architecture from a multi-architecture executable, it will no longer run on that architecture. So keep a backup copy.



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