Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!pacbell!ames!indri!aplcen!haven!adm!xadmx!rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov From: rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: ranlib Message-ID: <20553@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 9 Aug 89 01:17:18 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 17 ? From: Karl Heuer? In article <867@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes: ? >lorder(1) exists under bsd but is really not necessary with ranlib. ? Conversely, ranlib is not really necessary if you have lorder and tsort. ? (If tsort reports a circular dependency, the solution is to merge the objects ? in question into a single module, either with `ld -r' or by recompiling them ? as a single source.) Or search the library as many times as the longest cycle :-) ? Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint ? Followups to comp.unix.questions only; this isn't a C issue. Root Boy Jim Have GNU, Will Travel.