8.0 Dynamic Linker Broken? (Was: [PATCH] SASL problems with spnego on 8.0-BETA4)

On Fri, 02 Oct 2009, 08:24 -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 02 October 2009 4:13:19 am John Marshall wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 08:22 +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, 11:26 -0400, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > >
  [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Now, hopefully someone who understands enough about dynamic linking will
> > > > know if this is the correct fix for 8.0? (I'm going on a couple of weeks
> > > > vacation at the end of this week, so I won't be around to commit 
> > > > anything
> > > > and don't understand it well enough to know if this is the correct way
> > > > to fix it.)
> > > > 
> > > > So, hopefully someone else can pick this one up?
> > > > 
  [snip]
> > > 
> > > I have submitted a patch to the FreeBSD Makefile which patches the
> > > vendor-supplied template for krb5-config.  I should be grateful if dfr_at_
> > > or another src committer would please review this with a view to
> > > obtaining re_at_ approval to commit it before 8.0-RC2.
> > > 
> > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139037>
> > 
> > Any src committers able to help with this?
> 
> Hmmm, I thought that libgssapi was supposed to use dlopen to load the proper 
> back-end libraries using /etc/gss/mech rather than having applications 
> directly link against them.

OK, so if my proposed solution is, in fact, only masking a symptom of a
broken dynamic linker, would somebody who understands this stuff please
weigh in on this with some debugging suggestions or with a patch to
address this problem?

I'm able to help with testing but I'm not a programmer and know nothing
about the FreeBSD dynamic linker.

Thanks.

-- 
John Marshall