1. NAME▲

lorder - list dependencies for object files

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

lorder

3. DESCRIPTION ▲

The utility uses nm(1) to determine interdependencies in the list of object files specified on the command line. outputs a list of file names where the first file contains a symbol which is defined by the second file.

The output is normally used with tsort(1) when a library is created to determine the optimum ordering of the object modules so that all references may be resolved in a single pass of the loader.

4. EXAMPLES ▲

d -literal $ ar cr library.a `lorder ${OBJS} | tsort`

5. SEE ALSO ▲

ar(1) , ld(1) , nm(1) , ranlib(1) , tsort(1)

6. HISTORY ▲

An utility appeared in .At v7 .