Turn on --enable-new-dtags by default to make the linker set RUNPATH instead of RPATH on binaries. This is important because RUNPATH can be overriden using LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. Patch from Nixpkgs by Eelco Dolstra . --- binutils/ld/ldmain.c +++ binutils/ld/ldmain.c @@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) link_info.allow_undefined_version = TRUE; link_info.keep_memory = TRUE; + link_info.new_dtags = TRUE; link_info.combreloc = TRUE; link_info.strip_discarded = TRUE; link_info.callbacks = &link_callbacks;