Bug #6964 mysql_config script incorrectly removes -Wl, flags

Description:
The mysql_config script incorrectly filters -Wl, flags from the CFLAGS, which can cause client software using mysql_config to be unable to build.  I experienced this trying to build Samba.

In my case, the CFLAGS used to compile MySQL was:
-I/usr/include/mysql -Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wl,-O1 -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -DUSE_OLD_FUNCTIONS

After running the mysql_config --cflags command, the output was:
-I/usr/include/mysql -Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe -Wl,-DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -DUSE_OLD_FUNCTIONS

Notice that the -Wl, flag has merged with the next one.  This causes ld to bail out with an error.

How to repeat:
Add a -Wl, option to your CFLAGS, where the option being passed to the linker is included in the list of flags to remove.  For example, -Wl,-O1.

Of course, one could argue that you should add the flags to your LDFLAGS instead, but many broken build scripts just dump the LDFLAGS back into the CFLAGS anyways.

Suggested fix:
Applying the following patch to mysql_config fixes the problem for me:
--- mysql_config    2004-12-02 15:43:16.664738000 -0500
+++ mysql_config        2004-12-02 15:42:52.866355904 -0500
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 # Remove some options that a client doesn't have to care about
 for remove in DDBUG_OFF DSAFEMALLOC USAFEMALLOC DSAFE_MUTEX \
               DPEDANTIC_SAFEMALLOC DUNIV_MUST_NOT_INLINE DFORCE_INIT_OF_VARS \
-              DEXTRA_DEBUG DHAVE_purify 'O[0-9s]' 'W[-A-Za-z]*'
+              DEXTRA_DEBUG DHAVE_purify 'Wl,[-0-9A-Za-z_,=]*' 'O[0-9s]' 'W[-A-Za-z]*'
 do
   cflags=`echo "$cflags"|sed -e "s/-$remove  *//g"`
 done

Took a different approach: don't strip out anything that isn't a complete option. This means that 
-Wl,-O1 and similar constructs will be left intact.

(Note two versions of this patch were committed. Correct one is at http://lists.mysql.com/
internals/20286.)

Mentioned in 4.1.9 change notes.