NAME
lorder – list dependencies for object filesSYNOPSIS
lorder file …DESCRIPTION
The lorder utility uses nm(1) to determine interdependencies in the list of object files specified on the command line. lorder 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.
EXAMPLES
$ ar cr library.a `lorder ${OBJS} | tsort`
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