--- a/sbsv2/raptor/RELEASE-NOTES.txt	Tue Jan 12 17:23:46 2010 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/RELEASE-NOTES.txt	Fri Jan 15 11:45:05 2010 +0000
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 version 2.11.3
 
 Defect Fixes:
+DPDEF142616 Raptor: Variables can be set unnecessarily prior to TEM execution
 Fix for: filter terminal flags up when recipe truncated
 SF bug 170: invalid XML output when a zip file is missing
 SF bug 518: unpaged keyword in mmp files is not parsed properly

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/test/smoke_suite/apply_usecases.py	Fri Jan 15 11:45:05 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description: 
+#
+
+from raptor_tests import SmokeTest
+
+def run():
+	t = SmokeTest()
+	t.description = "This testcase tests specific cases of using APPLY"
+	t.usebash = True
+
+	# Introduce LINKER_OPTIONS for tools2 linker
+	t.id = "xx"
+	t.name = "apply_linker_options"
+	t.command = "sbs -b smoke_suite/test_resources/apply_usecases/linker_options/bld.inf -c tools2 -f -"
+	t.targets = [
+		"$(EPOCROOT)/epoc32/release/tools2/rel/test_apply_linkeroptions.exe"
+		]
+	t.addbuildtargets("smoke_suite/test_resources/apply_usecases/linker_options/bld.inf", [
+		"test_apply_linkeroptions_/test_apply_linkeroptions_exe/tools2/deb/test_apply_linkeroptions.o",
+		"test_apply_linkeroptions_/test_apply_linkeroptions_exe/tools2/rel/test_apply_linkeroptions.o"
+	])
+	t.mustmatch = ["-lwsock32"]
+	t.run("windows")
+
+	return t

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/test/smoke_suite/test_resources/apply_usecases/apply_test_usecases_variants.xml	Fri Jan 15 11:45:05 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+
+<build xmlns="http://symbian.com/xml/build"
+       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://symbian.com/xml/build build/2_0.xsd">
+
+  <!-- This variant is used so that we can tell if the APPLY keyword
+       can find variants exported into the epoc32 tree -->
+
+  <var name="apply_tools2_linker_options">
+	<append name="LINKER_OPTIONS" value="-lwsock32" />
+  </var>
+
+
+</build>

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/test/smoke_suite/test_resources/apply_usecases/linker_options/bld.inf	Fri Jan 15 11:45:05 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+PRJ_EXPORTS
+../apply_test_usecases_variants.xml /epoc32/tools/makefile_templates/
+
+PRJ_PLATFORMS
+TOOLS2
+
+PRJ_MMPFILES
+test_apply_linkeroptions.mmp
+

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/test/smoke_suite/test_resources/apply_usecases/linker_options/test_apply_linkeroptions.cpp	Fri Jan 15 11:45:05 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+int main()
+{
+    return 0;
+}

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/test/smoke_suite/test_resources/apply_usecases/linker_options/test_apply_linkeroptions.mmp	Fri Jan 15 11:45:05 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+TARGET          test_apply_linkeroptions
+TARGETTYPE      EXE
+
+SOURCE          test_apply_linkeroptions.cpp
+
+// Link to mingw libs: some_mingw_lib 
+APPLY		apply_tools2_linker_options