In makefile I'm passing rpath to the linker like this
-Wl,-rpath,/absolute_path_to_folder_with_lib
Everything works, but when I do
-Wl,-rpath,~/symlink
Where ~/symlink -> /absolute_path_to_folder_with_lib The library is not loaded Can value of rpath be a symbolic link ?
Can value of rpath be a symbolic link?
It sure can, but you misunderstood your problem, which is not about symbolic link, but about ~ expansion.
When you link your binary with -Wl,-rpath,~/symlink, you end up with RPATH that is literally ~/symlink. Such a directory (or a symlink) does not exist.
When you type e.g. ls ~/symlink into your shell, what actually happens is that your shell expands ~ to whatever $HOME is set to, and then does a readdir on the expanded result.
But dynamic linker does not perform any such expansion, and literally looks for ./~/symlink, which of course doesn't exist.
What you want then is: -Wl,-rpath,$HOME/symlink.
