Re: lorder

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes ("Re: lorder"):
> [someone:]
> > Is there any reason for the continued existence of "lorder"? Is it perchance
> > used while building shared libraries?
> 
> All I know about lorder is that it is used to reorder object files in
> a library to optimize linking.  I don't know of any packages which
> currently use it.

Even if the current ranlib doesn't use it we shouldn't remove it -
it's been in Unix for a long time ...

Ian.