OK, I did "make; make install" in /usr/src/lib then "cd
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld; make" and now I get the messages:

cc -o ld ld.o symbol.o ...
cc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11

It was signal 8, but I deleted /var/db/kvm_*.db and ran ldconfig to get
the message above.  (I went after /var/db/kvm_*.db after ldd returned
"Floating exception (core dumped)" just like "ps -u" used to.)
the libraries have installed, and "ldconfig -rv" reports:
/var/run/ld.so.hints:
        0:-lcrypt.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.0.0 (8 -> 1)
        ...
        11:-lutil.3.1 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.3.1 (9 -> -1)

(There are 12 files listed by "ls /usr/lib/*.so*" BTW)
I'm beginning to worry that I might need to pull some binaries out of
the distribution tar files...

Jon Buller