bsd man page for lorder

LORDER(1)						      General Commands Manual							 LORDER(1)

NAME
       lorder - find ordering relation for an object library

SYNOPSIS
       lorder file ...

DESCRIPTION
       The input is one or more object or library archive (see ar(1)) files.  The standard output is a list of pairs of object file names, meaning
       that the first file of the pair refers to external identifiers defined in the second.  The output may be processed by tsort(1) to  find	an
       ordering of a library suitable for one-pass access by ld(1).

       This brash one-liner intends to build a new library from existing `.o' files.

	      ar cr library `lorder *.o | tsort`

       The need for lorder may be vitiated by use of ranlib(1), which converts an ordered archive into a randomly accessed library.

FILES
       *symref, *symdef
       nm(1), sed(1), sort(1), join(1)

SEE ALSO
       tsort(1), ld(1), ar(1), ranlib(1)

BUGS
       The names of object files, in and out of libraries, must end with `.o'; nonsense results otherwise.

4th Berkeley Distribution					  April 29, 1985							 LORDER(1)