I've alternate sysroot installed in my system and I alway use the following gcc command to insert alternate dynamic linker path to new compiled binary: $ gcc -O2 -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib:/usr/lib/cs2010q1/usr/lib -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/ld-linux.so.3 main.c -o main $ ldd main libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40028000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/libc.so.6 (0x4003b000) /usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/ld-linux.so.3 (0x40000000) However, I found '-Wl,--dynamic-linker' seems no effect for create dynamic link shared library, it doesn't insert the dynamic linker path to the final .so: $ gcc -shared -O2 -Wl,-rpath=/usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib:/usr/lib/cs2010q1/usr/lib -Wl,--dynamic-linker=/usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/ld-linux.so.3 -L/usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib -L/usr/lib/cs2010q1/usr/lib -L/opt/lib -L/opt/lib/gcc/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/4.4.3 -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/lib -fno-stack-protector JP.o cp_00_t.o eu_01_t.o ji_02_t.o ji_03_t.o ji_04_t.o ma_05_t.o sh_06_t.o -o JP.so $ ldd JP.so libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40132000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/libc.so.6 (0x40145000) /lib/ld-linux.so.3 (0x2a000000) as you can see the JP.so only have the /lib/ld-linux.so.3 instead of the /usr/lib/cs2010q1/lib/ld-linux.so.3 as the dynamic linker path. Appreciate for your suggestion on how to fix this problem. I am using gcc 4.4.3 in arm-linux 2.6.16 Regards, Samson