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From: bigm@batserver.cs.uq.oz (Michael Pilling)
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Subject: convert .o modules to archives with entry per function
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Date: 22 Aug 89 13:11:55 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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I am writing some library modules, but unfortunately the brain damaged unix linker
links in ALL the library even if you only use one function. This very annoying if
some of the libraries are large.

It seems the only way to create a random library (ranlib) is to write every function
as a separate .c file, compile these to .o's and then archive them.
This would be a pain.

I'm after a utility for apollos or suns (preferably machine independent) that
takes a .o file containing multiple functions
and creates from it a .o file for each function in the original
so that each of the resulting files contain only one function and can then be
archived

Can anyone help or correct my ignorance about how to construct libraries.

Michael Pilling,
Computer Science Department,
University of Queensland,	
St Lucia, 4067	Australia.