merge to branch

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 07:10:57PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Should we be thinking about a 2.12.1 release soon?  Considering
> mingw breakage, hppa shared lib problems, sparc bugs, I vote

You forgot about the basename() usage bugs and the symbol bug that caused
'ld' to core dump when we tried to warn about "dangerous" libc functions.
Either of these made 2.12.0 'ld' totally unusable on FreeBSD.