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.Dd 
.Dt LORDER 1
.Os BSD 4.4
.Sh NAME
.Nm lorder
.Nd list dependencies for object files
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm lorder
.Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm lorder
utility uses
.Xr nm  1
to determine interdependencies in the list of object files
specified on the command line.
.Nm Lorder
outputs a list of file names where the first file contains a symbol
which is defined by the second file.
.Pp
The output is normally used with
.Xr tsort  1
when a library is created to determine the optimum ordering of the
object modules so that all references may be resolved in a single
pass of the loader.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Pp
.Dl ar cr library.a `lorder ${OBJS}  tsort`
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ar 1 ,
.Xr ld 1 ,
.Xr nm 1 ,
.Xr ranlib 1 ,
.Xr tsort 1
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm Lorder
appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.