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From: bowen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon E Bowen)
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Subject: lorder problem
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Date: 19 Nov 90 18:07:30 GMT
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I'm trying to build libc.a right now and lorder is giving me a lot of
problems. It keeps printing errors like

Error lorder - cp defined multiple times in curses.s and in curses.s

(or something like that - it's from memory)

Anyway, I just don't get this message once. I'll get it again and again
a little later in the run. It seems lorder is reading each file in the
archive multiple times and getting confused but I don't know why because
they only appear in the archive once. After printing a few hundred of
these messages lorder runs out of memory and dies. Any ideas? I've tried
mixes of ar and lorder from both v1.3 and v1.5 nothing helps.

Something else I noticed that may be related is that when I build the
original library (out of order) I see a number of files in there called
lorder.xxxxxx where an x is a digit. I didn't tell it to add these to
the archives and I haven't even touched lorder yet so it couldn't have
added them. Does ar add these automatically or am I missing something
basic here?

Any help is appreciated.

Devon