sac2crc information confusing or missing

Bugzilla Link	1139
Created on	Sep 30, 2014 22:44
Version	svn
OS	Linux
Architecture	PC

Extended Description

I am trying to make sac2c use a gcc linker option, but am not
having much luck. Here's what I tried:
sac2c time2code.sac -v1
/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/rt/host/seq/libsac.so: undefined reference to `SAC_HM_ShowDiagnostics'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
abort: System failed to execute shell command
abort: gcc -std=gnu99  /tmp/SAC_0XIPol/a.out.o
abort: -L/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/modlibs/host/seq
abort: -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/modlibs/host/seq
abort: -L/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/modlibs/host/seq
abort: -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/modlibs/host/seq -L./host/seq
abort: -Wl,-rpath,./host/seq -L/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/rt/host/seq
abort: -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/sac2c/18614/rt/host/seq  -lArrayMod
abort: -lArrayTransformMod -lConstantsMod -lArrayArithMod -lArrayBasicsMod -lBoolMod
abort: -lScalarArithMod -lsacpreludeMod  -L/usr/local/dislin
abort: -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/dislin -L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/opt/local/lib
abort: -lsacphmc -lsac -lsacphmc  -o a.out
abort: with exit code 1
compilation failed while Creating binary code.
This looks like the changed gcc linker behavior, where it no longer
does the "as-needed" inclusion of .so files.
I tried to fix this by creating /home/sac/.sac2crc, as follows:
target add_seq:
CFLAGS += " --Wl,--no-as-needed "
Compiling with this file produces the above result. I.e.,
it looks like the flags are NOT being used in the command line.
I know that the file IS being read, because if I spell the first
line as "xtarget" rather than "target", then the sac2c parser complains.
sac2c -V
sac2c v1.00-beta (Haggis And Apple)
 developer rev 18614