RFC: automagic soname generation for ibm TPF-OS

[Eric Christopher]

OK, I'm not particularly happy with this hack, but can't think of
another way to do it offhand so I figured I'd post what I've got and see
what people say.

Basically the TPF-OS requires that each executable have an soname of the
first 4 characters, uppercase, of the name of the executable. They've
got other restrictions after that, but that's not something I want to
try to solve today. :)

Basically I took a page out of the irix notebook on this which has
something similar for shared libraries. Irix uses basename () instead of
a custom function, but the right idea is there. The problem comes in the
emulations - I'd prefer not to add a new custom emulation for this.

Any ideas?

Current patch attached.

-eric


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