Compiler/Linker flags

[Christopher Hulbert]

It seems that libtool is set up to strip unrecognized flags unless
using something like -Wc,flag.  Can anyone give me a brief answer as
to why? I often find myself going through hoops to get flags past
libtool. I often can't use -Wc,flag because that gets passed directly
to the compiler since autoconf does not use libtool for running the
tests. It seems to me that libtool should assume that I'm
intentionally passing those flags and just keep them. Perhaps an
option to accept unrecognized flags would be good? My latest round was
with the -Bstatic_pgi flag.

Chris