BuildExternal on HP-UX. (PowerHouse 8.43.D)

[Richard Sheehan]

I have a general question regarding BuildExternal

Are there any issues about the order of the routine_names and the order 
of the object_files - or their positions in the given archive; for a 
BuildExternal command,

Also, If I have more than one routine that I'm adding to qkdriver, at 
what point does is make sense to create an archived library to contain 
all of the individual external routines?  More than one routine?  More 
than 10?  Just curious....

Example:
  BuildExternal routine_1, routine_2 routine_2.o, routine_1.o

or
  BuildExternal routine_1, routine_2 /lib/PHroutines.a

where

$ ar -t /lib/PHroutines.a
has output similar to the following
1st_routine.o
.
i_th_routine.o
.
routine_2.o
routine_1.o
.
.
n_th_routine.o

Similarly the order of routine names if included in a "routine_names" file

TIA,

Richard

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Richard Sheehan
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Student Services, College of Technology
Idaho State University
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