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

Perhaps using the -rpath and -soname options to ld could help (assuming a binutils or binutils.gold package for ld on a recent Linux system)?