* ltmain.in (-XCClinker): New flag passes a linking option

directly to the compiler driver without appending ${wl}.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-10-25  Robert Boehne  <rboehne@gnu.org>
+
+	* ltmain.in (-XCClinker): New flag passes a linking option
+	directly to the compiler driver without appending ${wl}.
+
 2002-10-25  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
 	* README-alpha: Add some release not templates for inspiration and

doc/libtool.texi

@@ -1144,10 +1144,11 @@ suffix (e.g. @samp{.c} for C source code) with the library object suffix,
 @samp{.lo}.
 
 If shared libraries are being built, any necessary PIC generation flags
-are substituted into the compilation command.
-You can pass compiler and linker specific flags using @samp{-Wc,@var{flag}}
-and @samp{-Xcompiler @var{flag}} or @samp{-Wl,@var{flag}} and
-@samp{-Xlinker @var{flag}}, respectively.
+are substituted into the compilation command.  You can pass link specific
+flags to the compiler driver using @samp{-XCClinker @var{flag}} or pass
+linker flags with @samp{-Wl,@var{flag}} and @samp{-Xlinker @var{flag}}.
+You can also pass compile specific flags using @samp{-Wc,@var{flag}}
+and @samp{-Xcompiler @var{flag}}.
 
 If the @samp{-static} option is given, then a @samp{.o} file is built,
 even if libtool was configured with @samp{--disable-static}.
@@ -1298,6 +1299,9 @@ release information, rather see the @samp{-release} flag.
 @item -Wl,@var{flag}
 @itemx -Xlinker @var{flag}
 Pass a linker specific flag directly to the linker.
+
+@item -XCClinker @var{flag}
+Pass a link specific flag to the compiler driver (@var{CC}) during linking.
 @end table
 
 If the @var{output-file} ends in @samp{.la}, then a libtool library is

ltmain.in

@@ -1089,6 +1089,14 @@ EOF
 	  finalize_command="$finalize_command $wl$qarg"
 	  continue
 	  ;;
+	xcclinker)
+	  linker_flags="$linker_flags $qarg"
+	  compiler_flags="$compiler_flags $qarg"
+	  prev=
+	  compile_command="$compile_command $qarg"
+	  finalize_command="$finalize_command $qarg"
+	  continue
+	  ;;
 	*)
 	  eval "$prev=\"\$arg\""
 	  prev=
@@ -1357,6 +1365,11 @@ EOF
 	continue
 	;;
 
+      -XCClinker)
+	prev=xcclinker
+	continue
+	;;
+
       # Some other compiler flag.
       -* | +*)
 	# Unknown arguments in both finalize_command and compile_command need