--- a/src/mklibs.py
+++ b/src/mklibs.py
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ while 1:
     passnr = passnr + 1
     # Gather all already reduced libraries and treat them as objects as well
     small_libs = []
-    for lib in regexpfilter(os.listdir(dest_path), "(.*-so-stripped)$"):
+    for lib in regexpfilter(os.listdir(dest_path), "(.*-so)$"):
         obj = dest_path + "/" + lib
         small_libs.append(obj)
         inode = os.stat(obj)[ST_INO]
@@ -552,12 +552,7 @@ while 1:
         if not so_file:
             sys.exit("File not found:" + library)
         pic_file = find_pic(library)
-        if not pic_file:
-            # No pic file, so we have to use the .so file, no reduction
-            debug(DEBUG_VERBOSE, "No pic file found for", so_file, "; copying")
-            command(target + "objcopy", "--strip-unneeded -R .note -R .comment",
-                    so_file, dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so-stripped")
-        else:
+        if pic_file:
             # we have a pic file, recompile
             debug(DEBUG_SPAM, "extracting from:", pic_file, "so_file:", so_file)
             soname = extract_soname(so_file)
@@ -600,22 +595,14 @@ while 1:
             cmd.append(library_depends_gcc_libnames(so_file))
             command(target + "gcc", *cmd)
 
-            # strip result
-            command(target + "objcopy", "--strip-unneeded -R .note -R .comment",
-                      dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so",
-                      dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so-stripped")
             ## DEBUG
             debug(DEBUG_VERBOSE, so_file, "\t", `os.stat(so_file)[ST_SIZE]`)
             debug(DEBUG_VERBOSE, dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so", "\t",
                   `os.stat(dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so")[ST_SIZE]`)
-            debug(DEBUG_VERBOSE, dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so-stripped",
-                  "\t", `os.stat(dest_path + "/" + so_file_name + "-so-stripped")[ST_SIZE]`)
 
 # Finalising libs and cleaning up
-for lib in regexpfilter(os.listdir(dest_path), "(.*)-so-stripped$"):
-    os.rename(dest_path + "/" + lib + "-so-stripped", dest_path + "/" + lib)
-for lib in regexpfilter(os.listdir(dest_path), "(.*-so)$"):
-    os.remove(dest_path + "/" + lib)
+for lib in regexpfilter(os.listdir(dest_path), "(.*)-so$"):
+    os.rename(dest_path + "/" + lib + "-so", dest_path + "/" + lib)
 
 # Canonicalize library names.
 for lib in regexpfilter(os.listdir(dest_path), "(.*so[.\d]*)$"):