The
utility uses
to determine interdependencies in the list of object files specified on the command line.
outputs a list of file names where the first file contains a symbol which is defined by the second file.
The output is normally used with
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.
$ ar cr library.a `lorder ${OBJS} | tsort`
An
utility appeared in