LORDER(1)                  OpenBSD Reference Manual                  LORDER(1)

NAME
     lorder - list dependencies for object files



SYNOPSIS
     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 refer-
     ences may be resolved in a single pass of the loader.

EXAMPLES
           ar cr library.a `lorder ${OBJS} | tsort`

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

HISTORY
     An lorder utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

OpenBSD 2.6                     April 28, 1995                               1