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Asked: 2026-06-14T11:20:14+00:00

I have my soft.c and I compile it successfully and link it against /usr/lib/myLib.so

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I have my soft.c and I compile it successfully and link it against /usr/lib/myLib.so.

Everything it’s ok except for the fact that it’s not what I’m looking for, i would like to manage the final path considered for the linking, in other words i want GCC to consider the library /usr/lib/myLib.so but I also want the final linking to be a relative path, kinda like ../myLib.so.

The usual scenario is

./soft linked to -> /usr/lib/myLib.so

I want

./soft linked to -> ../myLib.so

Obiviously I also need GCC to manage any cross referenced library, for example if /usr/lib/myLib.so is linked to other libs i want all the libraries involved to be relocated in the relative path so ../myLib.so can fully work from a relative path .

How to achieve that ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could include run-time search path information in the binaries, using the -rpath option to the linker (passed to gcc as -Wl,-rpath,.

    Note that this is generally frowned upon by distribution maintainers, as there should be a single system-wide library search path so conflicts are caught early.

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