Merge from Trunk
Description:
Merging all of my CFLAGS-related changes from trunk to 1.8
This includes revision #s: 17616, 17625, 17627, 17639, and 17643.
Tested:
h5committest and some additional checks on our FreeBSD as well
as NCSA's machines.
Merge from trunk
Description:
Merged revisions 17228 and 17440 from trunk to 1.8
Specifically, this brings support of --enable-static-exec flag into 1.8
Tested:
Manually on jam, linew, smirom, liberty, plus h5committest.
Currently, there is no automatic regression test that exists due to
portability issues. Behavior is both different and undefined on certain
systems (and while 'nm' command seems to exist on all machines, behavior
is confirmed to be different on Mac, possibly others). Solution will be
to set up some sort of framework in daily tests to build statically,
remove shared paths, and verify executables can function.
