src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld, branch release/2.2.7_cvs

This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag

1998-07-24T04:57:32Z

'RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE'. This commit was manufactured to restore the state of the 2.2.7-RELEASE image. Releases prior to 5.3-RELEASE are omitting the secure/ and crypto/ subdirs.

Eliminate compiler warnings. I modified the submitted patch a

1998-04-19T23:01:27Z

little, primarily by changing the white space. This aligns the fix with changes that have already been made in -current, and will simplify future merges from the main branch. PR: bin/6328 Reviewed by: jdp Submitted by: clkao@heaven.pamud.net (Chia-liang Kao)

Use consistent spelling,

1997-12-25T09:36:42Z

writeable -> writable (recall prior debate over this? :-) initialise -> initialize recognise -> recognize Merry Christmas! :)

MFC: Prepend an underscore if a symbol lookup fails and try again.

1997-09-02T14:18:52Z

Sync with -current.

1997-08-08T02:18:14Z

Merge the typo fix from -current.

1997-05-27T13:48:38Z

PR: 3693 Submitted by: Kazuo Horikawa

Partial merge from main branch 1.40 -> 1.41: Set the dynamic linker

1997-05-25T20:29:54Z

name when necessary, to work around a bug in some versions of crt0.o.

Merge Bruce's de-bogosifying chagnes from -current (1.24).

1997-05-08T07:11:32Z

Merge bug fix from main branch 1.43 -> 1.44: If a library is found

1997-01-20T19:37:13Z

in the hints file, but the library doesn't exist, ignore the hint.

If errors occur during the loading of the shared libraries required by

1996-10-24T16:24:19Z

the main program, report them directly from the dynamic linker and die there, rather than returning an error message to crt0.o. This enables the printing of error messages even for old executables, whose version of crt0.o is not able to print them. This fix closes PR bin/1869. The code in crt0.o for printing error messages from the dynamic linker is no longer used, because of this change. But it must remain, for backward compatibility with older dynamic linkers.