Using libtool together with the ${ORIGIN} soname variable

[r ve]

I'm using libtool to create plugin libraries for a program I'm working on.
These plugins are named without the lib prefix, that's all fine and it works 
great.

However, I need these plugins to be in the same directory as where the main 
executable resides, and I cannot install them into one of the $blah/lib 
paths or add the current path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

So I went searching for some way to get win32-like DLL behaviour (eg. first 
doing a search for DLL's in the current directory), but then for Linux.
I've found how to get such functionality at the following page:
http://www.flipcode.com/cgi-bin/msg.cgi?showThread=Tip-PathToEXE&forum=totd&id=-1

I can now use this ${ORIGIN} variable to load those plugins from the same 
directory as where the main executable lives.
To my knowledge, this is only possible when building the software by hand, 
though.. (or using a custom makefile, but that's not an option)

When I try to specify this soname using libtool (adding it to the LDFLAGS 
primary, eg. -Wl,-soname -Wl,{ORIGIN}/mylibname.so) it gets overridden by 
the libtool script, which also uses it to set the so name.

So my question is; is it possible to somehow put this {ORIGIN} variable in 
there and make libtool use it?
Or perhaps some way to turn off this soname setting from libtool?

Thanks,
Richard

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