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| author | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2021-12-20 17:57:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-01-03 01:17:34 +0000 |
| commit | 811f36c660a2d40b57bfbf8a9728866d83130d12 (patch) | |
| tree | 67fd66db35c6c73fd0a9a5dc310e972e655aa1b6 | |
| parent | 50b0f99010bc485e7f60e948ff3bc590fbbeea43 (diff) | |
| download | src-811f36c660a2d40b57bfbf8a9728866d83130d12.tar.gz src-811f36c660a2d40b57bfbf8a9728866d83130d12.zip | |
lorder: add note that it is no longer required
Use of lorder(1) is not required by contemporary linkers.
The GNU coreutils manual[1] has a good description of the use of lorder
and tsort:
This whole procedure has been obsolete since about 1980, because
Unix archives now contain a symbol table (traditionally built by
ranlib, now generally built by ar itself), and the Unix linker uses
the symbol table to effectively make multiple passes over an archive
file.
See 0e1e341b486c for some more details.
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tsort-background.html
PR: 259254 [exp-run]
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 3e01ee76f2042fe07ad5cf8edeb5065bc0aba320)
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/lorder/lorder.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/lorder/lorder.1 b/usr.bin/lorder/lorder.1 index b3bfc2d37d35..de03b626fc5f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/lorder/lorder.1 +++ b/usr.bin/lorder/lorder.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)lorder.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/28/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd August 14, 2015 +.Dd December 20, 2021 .Dt LORDER 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ When linking static binaries, and .Xr tsort 1 can be used to properly order library archives automatically. +.Pp +The use of +.Nm +is not required by contemporary linkers, and +.Nm +may be removed from a future version of +.Fx . .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width indent .It Ev NM |