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8.Dd
9.Dt LORDER 1
10.Os BSD 4.4
11.Sh NAME
12.Nm lorder
13.Nd list dependencies for object files
14.Sh SYNOPSIS
15.Nm lorder
16.Ar file ...
17.Sh DESCRIPTION
18The
19.Nm lorder
20utility uses
21.Xr nm  1
22to determine interdependencies in the list of object files
23specified on the command line.
24.Nm Lorder
25outputs a list of file names where the first file contains a symbol
26which is defined by the second file.
27.Pp
28The output is normally used with
29.Xr tsort  1
30when a library is created to determine the optimum ordering of the
31object modules so that all references may be resolved in a single
32pass of the loader.
33.Sh EXAMPLES
34.Pp
35.Dl ar cr library.a `lorder ${OBJS}  tsort`
36.Sh SEE ALSO
37.Xr ar 1 ,
38.Xr ld 1 ,
39.Xr nm 1 ,
40.Xr ranlib 1 ,
41.Xr tsort 1
42.Sh HISTORY
43.Nm Lorder
44appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.
45