diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index ca9e664ef97..28505b87103 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ install: logformat $(LIBNAME).$(LIBEXT) $(LIBNAME).a
 
 logformat:
 	(cd ../newbrt;make)
-	
+
 check: $(LIBNAME).$(LIBEXT)
 	python tokuglobals.py $(LIBNAME).$(LIBEXT)
 
+strip: $(LIBNAME).$(LIBEXT)
+	strip $(LIBNAME).$(LIBEXT)
+
 clean:
 	rm -rf $(LIBNAME).$(LIBEXT) $(LIBNAME).a *.o
 
diff --git a/utils/Makefile b/utils/Makefile
index fb39859d238..f74f4db7d57 100644
--- a/utils/Makefile
+++ b/utils/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ifndef BDBDIR
-BDBDIR=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1
+BDBDIR=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.4
 endif
 BDB_DUMP=$(BDBDIR)/bin/db_dump
 BDB_LOAD=$(BDBDIR)/bin/db_load
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ all: $(UTILS) $(STATIC_UTILS)
 %_static: %.c
 	$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $< $(STATIC_LDFLAGS)
 
+strip: $(STATIC_UTILS) 
+	strip $(STATIC_UTILS)
+
 test: test_gen test_load test_dump test_bdb_tokudb
 
 test_gen: test_gen_hex