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From: jsalter@slo.uucp (James Salter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ar, lorder & tsort
Keywords: ranlib ld ar lorder tsort
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Date: 14 Mar 90 19:04:57 GMT
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In article <2394@csm9a.UUCP> jkcohen@csm9a.UUCP ( Math/CWP) writes:
>Question about PS/2 AIX, v1.1:
>
>I read the 2nd sentence of DESCRIPTION on ar man page to say that
>ranlib isn't needed.  Indeed, ranlib is *not* in the distribution.
>What muddies the water for me is that the lorder and tsort man pages
>say that the old lorder|tsort methodology *should* be used.
>
>So do I just "ar" or do I "lorder|tsort|ar" ?

Neither.  You type:

	ar qv <libname> `lorder <files> | tsort`

It should be relatively simple to create a shell script which would take
an existing archive and make sure it's in the correct order using lorder
and tsort, also.

>Jack K. Cohen
>jkc@dix.mines.colorado.edu

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