It is a frequent nuisance to me that any program that is linked with
X11 libs seems to need "-Wl,-R/usr/X11R6/lib".

Couldn't/shouldn't the default be that "-Lfoo" *IMPLIES* that?  Is there
some obvious trick I'm missing that would make a naive build script work
by default, without having to tell it "by the way, you need to go out of
your way to clarify that you weren't joking when you asked for the X11 libs"?

-s