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lorder(1)
NAME
  lorder - Finds the best order for member files in an object library

SYNOPSIS
  lorder file...

DESCRIPTION
  The lorder command is essentially obsolete.  Use the following command in
  its place:

       % ar -ts file.a

  The lorder command reads one or more object or library archive files, looks
  for external references, and writes a list of paired filenames to standard
  output.  The first of each pair of files contains references to identifiers
  that are defined in the second file.	You can send this list to the tsort
  command to find an ordering of a library member file suitable for 1-pass
  access by ld.

  If object files do not end with .o, lorder overlooks them and attributes
  their global symbols and references to some other file.

EXAMPLES
  To create a subroutine library, enter:

       lorder charin.o scanfld.o scan.o scanln.o |
	       tsort | xargs ar qv libsubs.a

  (Enter this command entirely on one line, not on two lines as shown above.)

  This creates a subroutine library named libsubs.a that contains charin.o,
  scanfld.o, scan.o, and scanln.o. The ordering of the object modules in the
  library is important. The lorder and tsort commands together add the
  subroutines to the library in the proper order.

  Suppose that scan.o calls entry points in scanfld.o and scanln.o.
  scanfld.o also calls entry points in charin.o. First, the lorder command
  creates a list of pairs that shows these dependencies:

       charin.o charin.o
       scanfld.o scanfld.o
       scan.o scan.o
       scanln.o scanln.o
       scanfld.o charin.o
       scanln.o charin.o
       scan.o scanfld.o

  This list is piped to the tsort command, which converts the list into the
  ordering that is needed:

       scan.o
       scanfld.o
       scanln.o
       charin.o

  Note that each module precedes the module it calls.  charin.o, which does
  not call another module, is last. The second list is then piped to xargs,
  which constructs and runs the following ar command:

       ar  qv  libsubs.a  scan.o  scanfld.o  scanln.o  charin.o

  This ar command creates the properly ordered library.

FILES
  /tmp/sym*
      Temporary files

SEE ALSO
  Commands:  ar(1), as(1), cc(1), ld(1), make(1), nm(1), size(1), strip(1),
  tsort(1), xargs(1)

  Files:  a.out(4), ar(4)

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