How can I change the filename of a shared library after building a program that depends on it?
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I have a program that depends on a shared library it expects to find deep inside a directory structure. I'd like to move that shared library out and into a better place. On OS X, this can be done with install_name_tool. I'm unable to find an equivalent for Linux.
For reference, readelf -d myprogram spits out the following paraphrased output:
Dynamic section at offset 0x1e9ed4 contains 30 entries:
Tag Type Name/Value
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [this/is/terrible/library.so]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libGL.so.1]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libGLU.so.1]
0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
and I would like to errata "this/is/terrible/library.so" to be "shared/library.so".
I know about RPATH and it isn't what I'm looking for, I don't need to change search paths globally.
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