99.99% positive this is a bug...

[Giles Malet]

> My '-R' options in LDFLAGS are being ignored at certain link
> times.  [...]
> Solaris 9 SPARC
> gcc + /usr/ccs/bin/ld

With that linker you can work around it by setting the environment 
first. This from an in-house Makefile:

export LD_OPTIONS := \
         -R/software/${DB_VERSION}/lib           \
         -R/software/${KRB_VERSION}/lib          \
         -R/software/${LDAP_VERSION}/lib         \
         -R/software/${SSL_VERSION}/lib


gdm