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> Hmmm - any comments, ld hackers?
> 
> The freeBSD dlsym() is - as far as I know - the only dlsym()
> implementation that doesn't search for _funktion() ...

Here's a quick and dirty patch that implements it.  I tested it locally
w/out any problems, but it has lots of possible problems.

1) If fails to prepend another underscore if the symbol already is
   underscored.
2) I haven't tested it enough on the entire system.
3) It might not be the correct solution.

> I also complained about dlopen() not searching LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I didn't even attempt to look at this.


Nate