Improve Sun Studio support.  Patch from Monty Taylor.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 42a7fe7..b847f3d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -14,15 +14,20 @@
 # the size of one file name in the dist tarfile over the 99-char limit.)
 AC_INIT([Protocol Buffers],[2.1.1-pre],[protobuf@googlegroups.com],[protobuf])
 
-# Detect whether the user specified their own compilation flags.  If so then
-# we want to respect their decision, otherwise we will twiddle them later.
-AS_IF([test "$CXXFLAGS" = ""],[
-  protobuf_default_cxxflags=yes
-])
 
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/google/protobuf/message.cc)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+
+# autoconf's default CXXFLAGS are usually "-g -O2".  These aren't necessarily
+# the best choice for libprotobuf.
+AS_IF([test "x${ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set}" = "x"],
+      [CFLAGS=""])
+AS_IF([test "x${ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set}" = "x"],
+      [CXXFLAGS=""])
+  
+AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
+
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 
 AC_ARG_WITH([zlib],
@@ -40,26 +45,15 @@
 AC_PROG_CXX
 AC_LANG([C++])
 ACX_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
-AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 AM_CONDITIONAL(GCC, test "$GCC" = yes)   # let the Makefile know if we're gcc
 
-# autoconf's default CXXFLAGS are usually "-g -O2".  These aren't necessarily
-# the best choice for libprotobuf.
+# test_util.cc takes forever to compile with GCC and optimization turned on.
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([C++ compiler flags...])
-AS_IF([test "$protobuf_default_cxxflags" = "yes"],[
-
-  # test_util.cc takes forever to compile with GCC and optimization turned on.
-  # But we cannot override anything that is part of CXXFLAGS since it is the
-  # last thing added to the command line.  The automake docs insist that you
-  # should never want to override CXXFLAGS because they represent the intent of
-  # the user, and the user knows best.  But if the user actually did not set
-  # any CXXFLAGS, then AC_PROG_CXX sets them to a rather arbitrary default.
-  # That's not user intent at all, but automake still treats it like it is.
-  # Grr.  Anyway, getting back to the point, this hack here strips out the -O
-  # flag from autoconf's defaults and puts it into another variable so that
-  # we can override it.  BTW, m4 escaping sucks.
-  PROTOBUF_OPT_FLAG=`echo "$CXXFLAGS" | grep -o '\-O@<:@0-9@:>@\?'`
-  CXXFLAGS=`echo "$CXXFLAGS" | sed -e 's/ \?-O@<:@0-9@:>@\?//g'`
+AS_IF([test "x${ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set}" = "x"],[
+  AS_IF([test "$GCC" = "yes"],[
+    PROTOBUF_OPT_FLAG="-O2"
+    CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -g"
+  ])
 
   # Protocol Buffers contains several checks that are intended to be used only
   # for debugging and which might hurt performance.  Most users are probably
@@ -68,7 +62,6 @@
 
   AC_MSG_RESULT([use default: $PROTOBUF_OPT_FLAG $CXXFLAGS])
 ],[
-  PROTOBUF_OPT_FLAG=
   AC_MSG_RESULT([use user-supplied: $CXXFLAGS])
 ])
 
@@ -76,6 +69,10 @@
 
 ACX_CHECK_SUNCC
 
+# Have to do libtool after SUNCC, other wise it "helpfully" adds Crun Cstd 
+# to the link
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+
 # Checks for header files.
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h inttypes.h limits.h stdlib.h unistd.h])