[Haskell-cafe] Installing ghc on NFS ... stripping and upx'ing executables, but what about .a/.so libs

This gets the ghc executable itself from 42mb down to 5.6mb, which helps a lot on cruddy NFS installations. For example the libHSghc-*, which are pretty huge (49-137mb). Are these libraries that are used only by GHC for compilation? (Actually, I seem to be able to compile simple files without them... so what are they used for?) Any disadvantage to stripping them to save a factor of two? Thanks, -Ryan