LORDER(1) BSD Reference Manual LORDER(1)
lorder - list dependencies for object files
lorder file [...]
The lorder utility uses nm(1) to determine interdependencies in the list of object files specified on the command line. lorder 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 tsort(1) when a library is created to determine the optimum ordering of the object modules so that all refer- ences may be resolved in a single pass of the loader.
$ ar cr library.a $(lorder ${OBJS} | tsort)
ar(1), ld(1), nm(1), ranlib(1), tsort(1)
An lorder utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. MirBSD #10-current September 4, 2020 1