PATCH: Support LD_SYMBOLIC and LD_SYMBOLIC_FUNCTIONS

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

 > Paul Brook wrote:
> I agree with Dan that using environment variables to control linker behavior 
> is a really bad idea. People are liable to put in in their .profile 
> because "It makes things go faster", then complain when things mysteriously 
> break.

Agreed.

It also makes understanding bug reports from users very much harder if 
they forget to tell us that this environment variable is set.

At the very least H.J. you ought to extend your patch so that the linker 
clearly tells the user that it is changing its behaviour because of an 
environment variable.

But even with that change I would be unhappy about accepting the patch. 
   Is it really that much easier to set an environment variable for a 
particular package, as opposed to say, altering its Makefile or build 
script ?

Cheers
   Nick