Peculiar configure behavior

[Randy Chung]

Howdy folks,

There seem to be a few oddities going on somewhere in the configure, 
make chain.  Particularly, I'm finding that some packages aren't reading 
from environment variables properly, leading to a situation where some 
binaries are built against runtime libraries in the default path, while 
others are (properly) built against runtime libraries specified in 
environment variables.  In particular, the following binaries on my 
system are misbehaving:

xfbook4
xfcalendar
xffm
xffrecuent4
xffrequent
xffstab
xffstab4
xfglob4
xfrecent
xfrecent4
xfrun4
xfsamba4
xftrash4
xftree4

I have LD_LIBRARY_PATH=usr/local/xfce4/lib and 
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/xfce4/lib -R/usr/local/xfce4/lib" which should 
make everything build properly; however, it's only working for about 
half the packages.  Now here's the odd part: only libxfce4util is being 
linked incorrectly.  That is, going into the path I installed my 
binaries in (/usr/local/xfce4/bin) and running:

for i in *; do ldd $i | grep '/usr/lib' | grep xfce; done

Yields only references to libxfce4util.so.  All other xfce libraries are 
being properly linked to, e.g. /usr/local/xfce4/lib/libxfcegui4.so.

My experience with configure scripts and Makefile.{in,am} is limited, 
and I'm busy with moving back to the US at the moment, so if someone 
could take a look at this it would be much appreciated :)

Thanks,

Randy