[Chicken-janitors] strange behaviour

[Elf]

strange behaviour happens in the following case:
1) have an older version of chicken installed in SOMEPREFIX
2) make ARCH=linux PREFIX=SOMEPREFIX bootstrap
3) make ARCH=linux PREFIX=SOMEPREFIX check

the rpath, include, and link options cause the above to fail horribly.

when i did some scary mods to disable the rpath options (-Wl,-RLIB_PREFIX) in
the default link options in the case of -L appearing on command line, it worked.

when i moved the old libs, headers, and executables, it also works.

this is very strange behaviour.  rpath args should only be enabled when there
arent relative paths as -L or -I options.  also, the ordering of the options
is quite bad... as it currently stands, the version of libchicken etc in
LIBPREFIX will ALWAYS be the one linked to, because the -l args follow the 
-LLIBPREFIX, instead of following any user-defined -L options.  also, the -I
compiler options do not do what is expected: any command-line args should
preserve ordering and come before any default paths.  this is not the current
case.

i have some fixes for this but theres a decent change they will break lots of
things, and theyre very ad-hoc and kludgy.

what should be done?

-elf