src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld/rtld.1, branch main

These files were moved elsewhere (sbin/ldconfig, libexec/rtld-aout,

1998-06-01T14:11:28Z

usr.bin/ldd) as they stand alone and are under bsd-style license.

spelling corrections.

1997-09-13T16:01:53Z

PR: docs/4450 Submitted by: josh@quick.net

Typo fix.

1997-05-27T13:46:40Z

PR: 3693 Submitted by: Kazuo Horikawa

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$

1997-02-22T15:48:31Z

Pay attention to the environment variable "LD_IGNORE_MISSING_OBJECTS".

1997-01-17T20:22:18Z

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.

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

1997-01-14T07:20:47Z

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.

Sort cross references.

1997-01-13T00:25:51Z

Correct typos and spelling errors.

1997-01-12T00:19:14Z

Add support for the LD_BIND_NOW environment variable. If it is set to a

1997-01-12T00:16:36Z

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 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.

Fix spelling error in manpage.

1996-12-26T21:51:09Z