> > While I do also think that dlsym() should behave better in 
> case of = 
> > error, I checked pango with revision 1.99-ld.elf_so on 1.6Y 
> i386 and 
> > it did not = work.
> > Appearantly, there are probably further traps (or I am 
> doing something
> > completely wrong).
> 
> What steps did you use to go back to 1.99?  I did it by 
> downloading rtld.c 1.99 from the cvsweb repository and 
> rebuilding the entire system from scratch and it DID work.  
> But I only did it that way because I tried re-compiling just 
> the code for ld.elf and got a bunch of compiler complaints 
> about missing headers and such.
> 
> Is there a simple and reliable way to build a small section 
> of the system manually?  I'll be happy to try it again if you 
> can tell me how.
> 
> This morning I just saved the binary /libexec/ld.elf_so from 
> the build I did yesterday (the 1.99 sources) and copied it 
> over this morning's binary and that also worked perfectly.  
> Before I did that I tried to run pango-querypackages and 
> confirmed that it still segfaults with version 1.100 and 
> still runs fine with yesterday's 1.99 binary.

I did it basically the same way, except for that I assured ld.elf_so is
already built and aborted the rest of the system compilation, then re-made
ld.elf_so with the appropriate revision of rtld.c. I suppose I will try it
again, perhaps building the complete distribution with the correct
rtld.c-revision this time, and have a look at the Glib-patch suggested by
Quentin Garnier yesterday. I hope that there is hope in this. ;-)

Cheers,

Dennis den Brok