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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: why does 4.3bsd still lorder|tsort libc?
Message-ID: <11112@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Sep 89 21:25:10 GMT
References: <20883@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <20883@adm.BRL.MIL> stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:
>Since 4.3bsd ranlib's libraries such as libc.a, why
>does the Makefile for libc.a still lorder|tsort before
>ar'ing the .o files?

Why not?

One possible advantage is if you naively "cp new_libc.a libc.a"
the newly installed libc.a will work okay even though the BSD "ld"
grumbles that its table of contents is unusable.