This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
pathnames (rather than as "-lfoo") correctly. Closes PR bin/2404.
dynamic linking information in the executable. It's quite extensive. It's connected to ldd's (new) -v option.