diff -urN sorcery.ori/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libdispel sorcery/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libdispel
--- sorcery.ori/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libdispel	2004-11-13 22:06:16.000000000 +0100
+++ sorcery/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libdispel	2005-02-16 12:15:03.574065843 +0100
@@ -108,12 +108,16 @@
 
   rm  -f  $REAPER_FILES  $REAPER_DIRS  $REAPER_SYMS
 
+ # LD_SO=/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (we never remove this file!)
+   LD_SO=`ldd /bin/ls | awk '{print $1}' | grep "^/" | tail -1`
+
   # convert from TRACK_ROOT to / for protected/excluded filtering,
   # then to INSTALL_ROOT.
   # INSTALL_ROOT is relative to /, TRACK_ROOT is arbitrary.
   sed     "s:^$TRACK_ROOT::" $1   |
   filter  $PROTECTED              |
   filter  $EXCLUDED               |
+  grep -v "^${LD_SO}\$"           |
   sed     "s:^:$INSTALL_ROOT:"    |
   while   read  ITEM;  do
     if    [  -h  "$ITEM"  ];  then  echo  "$ITEM"  >>  $REAPER_SYMS
diff -urN sorcery.ori/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libsorcery sorcery/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libsorcery
--- sorcery.ori/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libsorcery	2004-11-29 18:01:14.000000000 +0100
+++ sorcery/var/lib/sorcery/modules/libsorcery	2005-02-16 12:15:03.575065650 +0100
@@ -231,12 +231,28 @@
   else  export  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OLD_LIBS:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
   fi
 
-  if  [  "$SPELL"  ==  "glibc"         ]   ||
-      [  "$SPELL"  ==  "glibc-custom"  ] ;  then
-    if [ -e $OLD_LIBS/ld-$OLD_VERSION.so ] ; then 
-      [[ `uname -m` == ppc* ]] && ln  -sf  $OLD_LIBS/ld-$OLD_VERSION.so  ${INSTALL_ROOT}/lib/ld.so.1 ||
-      ln  -sf  $OLD_LIBS/ld-$OLD_VERSION.so  ${INSTALL_ROOT}/lib/ld-linux.so.2 
-    fi
+# get the named of the dynamic loader with a well know dynamic binary : /bin/sh
+# on most platform it is : /lib/ld-linux.so.2, but it can be
+# /lib/ld.so.1 on ppc or /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 on x86_64
+
+# to detect it, we use the last library linked with an absolute path
+
+# LD_SO=/lib/ld-linux.so.2
+  LD_SO=`ldd /bin/ls | awk '{print $1}' | grep "^/" | tail -1`
+# LD_SO_REAL=/lib/ld-2.3.2.so
+  LD_SO_REAL=`readlink -f "${LD_SO}"`
+# LD_SO_NAME=ld-linux.so.2
+  LD_SO_NAME=`basename "${LD_SO}"`
+
+  if grep -q "${LD_SO}" "${OLD_LOG}" \
+	  || grep -q "${LD_SO_REAL}" "${OLD_LOG}"; then
+
+# since the loader is in the old log, it will be removed, so we make a
+# special link
+
+    echo "*** ln -sf ${OLD_LIBS}/${LD_SO_NAME} ${INSTALL_ROOT}/${LD_SO}"
+	ln -sf "${OLD_LIBS}/${LD_SO_NAME}" "${INSTALL_ROOT}/${LD_SO}"
+
   fi
 
 }