I'm having problems with dlopen() -- in certain circumstances, it
   core dumps.

i see this as well.... just a simple `perl -e "use NDBM_File"' is
enough to cause the core dump.  i see the same problems with gdb
not having a clue, either...

gdb gives me this:

Program received signal SIGTRAP (5), Trace/BPT trap
0x4077e78 in end ()

the `latest' change was probably my code to do cascaded libraries,
i'll have a look to see if it is this problem..

.mrg.