stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) (09/19/89)
Since 4.3bsd ranlib's libraries such as libc.a, why does the Makefile for libc.a still lorder|tsort before ar'ing the .o files? That is, does anything depend upon the archive being lorder'ed, or is it just an historical leftover? Thanks, Ron Stanonik stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (09/20/89)
In article <20883@adm.BRL.MIL> stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes: >Since 4.3bsd ranlib's libraries such as libc.a, why >does the Makefile for libc.a still lorder|tsort before >ar'ing the .o files? Why not? One possible advantage is if you naively "cp new_libc.a libc.a" the newly installed libc.a will work okay even though the BSD "ld" grumbles that its table of contents is unusable.