--- a/sbsv2/raptor/lib/flm/tools.xml	Sun Jan 17 22:59:11 2010 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/lib/flm/tools.xml	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 2010 +0000
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 		<param name='OPT.l'/>
 		<param name='STATICLIBRARY'/>
 		<param name='TARGETTYPE' default="EXE"/>
+		<param name='LINKER_OPTIONS' default=''/>	
 	</interface>
 
 	<interface name="Tools.lib" extends="Tools.common" flm="tools2lib.flm">

--- a/sbsv2/raptor/lib/flm/tools2exe.flm	Sun Jan 17 22:59:11 2010 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/lib/flm/tools2exe.flm	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 2010 +0000
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 define tools2linkexe
 $(EXETARGET): $(OBJECTFILES) $(STATICLIBS)
 	$(call startrule,tools2linkexe) \
-	$(LINKER) $(CFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) $(OPT.O)"$(EXETARGET)" $(call dblquote,$(OBJECTFILES)) $(LLIBS) \
+	$(LINKER) $(CFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) $(OPT.O)"$(EXETARGET)" $(call dblquote,$(OBJECTFILES)) $(LLIBS) $(LINKER_OPTIONS) \
 	$(if $(SAVESPACE),; $(GNURM) -rf $(OUTPUTPATH); true,) \
 	$(call endrule,tools2linkexe)
 

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/sbsv2/raptor/test/smoke_suite/apply_usecases.py	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2010 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	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 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	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 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	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 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	Sun Jan 17 23:00:39 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+TARGET          test_apply_linkeroptions
+TARGETTYPE      EXE
+
+SOURCE          test_apply_linkeroptions.cpp
+
+// Link to mingw libs: libwsock32.a 
+APPLY		apply_tools2_linker_options