MERGELIB(1)

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💅 MERGELIB(1) — merge one library into another

okay so bestie, this is the General Commands Manual page for mergelib(1) — yes, we’re doing library-merge lore today ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

mergelib — merge one library into another

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mergelib to-library from-library [object-filename-prefix]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so mergelib is the program that merges objects from one library into another. literally its whole thing 💅

The names of object files in from-library get prefixed by object-filename-prefix — and that prefix is "_" by default — so you don’t get name clashes, periodt. The merged library is left in to-library. slay.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jim Fulton wrote the mergelib program for the X Consortium. 💖

Colin Watson wrote this manual page, originally for the Debian Project. 🫶

cute sign-off: this page is giving imake 1.0.11 source/version energy, dated 2002-10-12. bye bestie, go merge responsibly 🌈💜

📦 where this page comes from

alpine 3.24: imake-doc 1.0.11-r0 · custom
arch rolling: imake 1.0.11-1 · MIT-open-group AND HPND
nixos 26.05: imake 1.0.11
nixpkgs unstable: imake 1.0.11
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