How to build a shared library (.so) without hardcoded full dependency paths?

Question

I need to build two 3rd party shared libraries, so their .so files will be reused by other projects. However, after build one of these libraries contains hardcoded path to a

Answer 1

I just got caught out thinking I had the same problem. None of the above answers helped me. Whenever I tried

ldd libB.so 

I would get in the output:

libA.so.1 => /home/me/localpath/lib/libA.so.1.0

and so I thought I had a hardcoded path. Turns out that I had forgotten I had LD_LIBRARY_PATH set for local testing. Clearing LD_LIBRARY_PATH meant that ldd found the correct installed library in /usr/lib/