Stripping of -R options: libtool 1.3.4 (and 1.3.5) and gtk+-1.2.8

[Tom Kacvinsky]

I was building gtk+-1.2.8 on a sparc-sun-solaris2.7 box using Sun's Pro compiler
and Sun's ld.  When libtool was invoked for linking, I see this as the argument
list for libtool:

/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link ld  -g  -o libgdk.la -rpath /dsk1/scratch/lib \
   -version-info 5:3:5 -release 1.2 -export-dynamic -L/dsk1/scratch/lib      \
   -R /dsk1/scratch/lib -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -L/usr/openwin/lib             \
    -R /usr/openwin/lib -lXext -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -lm gdk.lo gdkcc.lo      \
    gdkcolor.lo gdkcursor.lo gdkdnd.lo gdkdraw.lo gdkevents.lo gdkfont.lo    \
    gdkgc.lo gdkglobals.lo gdkim.lo gdkimage.lo gdkinput.lo gdkpixmap.lo     \
    gdkproperty.lo gdkrgb.lo gdkrectangle.lo gdkregion.lo gdkselection.lo    \
    gdkvisual.lo gdkwindow.lo gdkxid.lo gxid_lib.lo

Yet, after libtool is done parsing the arguments and finally calls ld, I see:

/usr/ccs/bin/ld -G -h libgdk-1.2.so.0 -o .libs/libgdk-1.2.so.0.5.3  gdk.lo   \
    gdkcc.lo gdkcolor.lo gdkcursor.lo gdkdnd.lo gdkdraw.lo gdkevents.lo      \
    gdkfont.lo gdkgc.lo gdkglobals.lo gdkim.lo gdkimage.lo gdkinput.lo       \
    gdkpixmap.lo gdkproperty.lo gdkrgb.lo gdkrectangle.lo gdkregion.lo       \
    gdkselection.lo gdkvisual.lo gdkwindow.lo gdkxid.lo gxid_lib.lo          \
    -L/dsk1/scratch/lib -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -L/usr/openwin/lib -lXext      \
    -lX11 -lsocket -lnsl -lm -lc

The thing you might note is that the -R options have been stripped!  Now,
freetype2 uses libtool 1.3.5, but the -R options do not get stripped
before the "native" linker gets called.  Strange....

Any ideas on what is going on?

Thanks,

Tom