opensolaris man page for lorder

lorder(1)							   User Commands							 lorder(1)

NAME
       lorder - find ordering relation for an object or library archive

SYNOPSIS
       lorder filename...

DESCRIPTION
       The  input is one or more object or library archive filenames (see ar(1)). The standard output is a list of pairs of object file or archive
       member names; 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. Note that the link editor ld is capable of multiple passes over an ar-
       chive in the portable archive format (see ar.h(3HEAD)) and does not require that lorder be used when building an  archive.   The  usage	of
       the lorder command may, however, allow for a more efficient access of the archive during the link edit process.

       The following example builds a new library from existing .o files.

       ar -cr library `lorder *.o | tsort`

FILES
       TMPDIR/*symref	 temporary files

       TMPDIR/*symdef	 temporary files

       TMPDIR		 usually /var/tmp but can be redefined by setting the environment variable  TMPDIR (see tempnam() in tmpnam(3C))

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbtool 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       ar(1), ld(1), tsort(1), tmpnam(3C), ar.h(3HEAD), attributes(5)

NOTES
       lorder  will  accept as input any object or archive file, regardless of its suffix, provided there is more than one input file. If there is
       but a single input file, its suffix must be .o.

       The length of the filename for TMPDIR is limited to whatever sed allows.

SunOS 5.11							    29 Oct 1991 							 lorder(1)