A reminder for when I have another round of spare time (or someone else does): x11-wm/aewm does not honor these environment variables.
Fixed in tree + 27 May 2010; Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> aewm-1.2.7.ebuild, + +files/aewm-1.2.7-ldflags.patch: + Respect user flags wrt bug 237698, do not pre-strip files wrt bug 252118. + Thanks coldwind and Diego for reporting.