Portland compiler support

[Jeff Squyres]

I have recently discovered that the Portland support that I sent 
patches in for does not work for shared libraries (a LAM/MPI user told 
me this -- not the Portland support group, which I find odd).

HINT: PGI -- I'd really like to hear from you; I heard nothing from you 
last time, which ended up in incorrect support for PGI compilers in 
Libtool.  Let's not get this wrong again and cause confusion for your 
customers...

The issue is that when making shared libraries with --whole-archive, 
the PGI linker needs one big argument 
("-Wl,--whole-archive,foo.a,bar.a,baz.a") as opposed to a 
space-sparated list ("-Wl,--whole-archive foo.a bar.a baz.a").

I'm trolling through the source code to figure out how to do this -- I 
see that $convenience is built up as a space separated list.  I'm 
trying to figure out the exact flow of things, but my first impression 
is that it might be easiest to just parameterize on the delimiter (" " 
or ",") in $convenience.  Am I off base here?

(still trolling through the code; I am *not* a Libtool expert!  
Comments / suggestions would be appreciated!)

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