LDFLAGS vs. shared libraries

I'm trying to build 7.4.3 under Solaris 9 with gcc and static linking of 
libgcc. This requires passing '-static-libgcc' when linking both 
binaries and shared libraries.

Passing 'LDFLAGS=-static-libgcc' to configure only partially works. 
Binaries are correctly linked with that flag, but shared libraries 
appear to ignore everything but -L options in LDFLAGS when linking (see 
src/Makefile.shlib). The 8.0 tree appears to do the same.

I've changed Makefile.shlib to add all of LDFLAGS to SHLIB_LINK for now, 
but I'm assuming there's a reason that it was only using -L flags 
originally. Is there a Right Way to pass extra options for 
shared-library linking?

-O