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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ranlib
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Date: 7 Aug 89 15:44:21 GMT
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In article <867@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
>lorder(1) exists under bsd but is really not necessary with ranlib.

In <14194@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>Conversely, ranlib is not really necessary if you have lorder and tsort.

Nope.  To use lorder/tsort you need to have all the .o files around,
while ranlib just needs the .a and space to make a new one.  Also, on
some systems the result of doing
	ar r lib.a `lorder ... | tsort`
makes a commandline that's too big (hint:  think lots of directories).
	/r$
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