library with a shared object dependency that contained alias symbols,
the linker incorrectly counted the number of symbols that would be
written, resulting in a fatal internal error. Since our libc now
contains some alias symbols (in "net/res_stubs.c"), this was
sufficient to tickle the bug: "ld -Bshareable foo.so -lc". To
fix it, I moved the accounting of alias symbols to a later point
in the processing, where it is possible to count only those symbols
that will actually be written to the output file.
This fix is well-confined to affect alias symbols only. I have
tested it with a full "make world". I am going to merge it into
-2.2 after a few more days of living with it in -current.
If it is set to a nonempty string, then simply skip any missing
shared libraries. This came up in a discussion long ago as a
potentially useful feature at sysinstall time. For example, an
X11 utility could be used without the X libraries being present,
provided the utility had a mode in which no X functions were actually
called.
by the -DNO_MMALLOC flag in gdb/Makefile.
The one thing we lose by doing this, AFAIK, is the possibility of using
mmap. Does anyone use that feature at all ?
2.2 candidate ?
files using the texi sources in /usr/src/contrib/gdb/gdb/doc.
I put a pointer to /usr/src/contrib/libreadline/doc into
Makefile.inc in the hope that the appropriate files would be
picked up.
This is based on /usr/ports/devel/gdb.
2.2 candidate ?
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
nonempty string, then function calls are relocated at program start-up
rather than lazily. This variable is standard on Sun and SVR4 systems.
The dlopen() function now supports both lazy and immediate binding, as
determined by its "mode" argument, which can be either 1 (RTLD_LAZY) or
2 (RTLD_NOW). I will add defines of these symbols to <dlfcn.h> as soon
as I've done a little more checking to make sure they won't cause
collisions or bootstrapping problems that would break "make world".
The "LD_*" environment variables which alter dynamic linker behavior are
now treated as unset if they are set to the empty string. This agrees
with the standard SVR4 conventions for the dynamic linker.
Add a work-around for programs compiled with certain buggy versions of
crt0.o. The buggy versions failed to set the "crt_ldso" member of the
interface structure. This caused certain error messages from the
dynamic linker to begin with "(null)" instead of the pathname of the
dynamic linker.
nonempty string, then function calls are relocated at program start-up
rather than lazily. This variable is standard on Sun and SVR4 systems.
The dlopen() function now supports both lazy and immediate binding, as
determined by its "mode" argument, which can be either 1 (RTLD_LAZY) or
2 (RTLD_NOW). I will add defines of these symbols to <dlfcn.h> as soon
as I've done a little more checking to make sure they won't cause
collisions or bootstrapping problems that would break "make world".
