Index: Makefile.in
==================================================================
--- Makefile.in	
+++ Makefile.in	
@@ -100,10 +100,11 @@
 CFLAGS.core = @SH_CFLAGS@
 LDFLAGS.shlib = @SH_LDFLAGS@
 LDFLAGS.zlib = @LDFLAGS_ZLIB@
 LDFLAGS.math = @LDFLAGS_MATH@
 LDFLAGS.rpath = @LDFLAGS_RPATH@
+LDFLAGS.libtclsqlite3.rpath = @LDFLAGS_TCLLIBDIR_RPATH@
 LDFLAGS.pthread = @LDFLAGS_PTHREAD@
 LDFLAGS.dlopen = @LDFLAGS_DLOPEN@
 LDFLAGS.readline = @LDFLAGS_READLINE@
 CFLAGS.readline = @CFLAGS_READLINE@
 LDFLAGS.icu = @LDFLAGS_ICU@

Index: autosetup/proj.tcl
==================================================================
--- autosetup/proj.tcl	
+++ autosetup/proj.tcl	
@@ -1156,27 +1156,33 @@
       || [proj-opt-was-provided exec-prefix]} {
     set lp "[get-define libdir]"
   } else {
     set lp "[get-define prefix]/lib"
   }
+
   # If we _don't_ use cc-with {} here (to avoid updating the global
   # CFLAGS or LIBS or whatever it is that cc-check-flags updates) then
   # downstream tests may fail because the resulting rpath gets
   # implicitly injected into them.
   cc-with {-link 1} {
     if {[cc-check-flags "-rpath $lp"]} {
       define LDFLAGS_RPATH "-rpath $lp"
+      define LDFLAGS_TCLLIBDIR_RPATH "-rpath \$\$TCLLIBDIR"
     } else {
       set wl [proj-cc-check-Wl-flag -rpath $lp]
+      set wlt [proj-cc-check-Wl-flag -rpath {$$TCLLIBDIR}]
       if {"" eq $wl} {
         set wl [proj-cc-check-Wl-flag -R$lp]
+        set wlt [proj-cc-check-Wl-flag -R{$$TCLLIBDIR}]
       }
       if {"" eq $wl} {
         # HP-UX: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/d80ecdaddd
         set wl [proj-cc-check-Wl-flag +b $lp]
+        set wlt [proj-cc-check-Wl-flag +b {$$TCLLIBDIR}]
       }
       define LDFLAGS_RPATH $wl
+      define LDFLAGS_TCLLIBDIR_RPATH $wlt
     }
   }
   expr {"" ne [get-define LDFLAGS_RPATH]}
 }
 

Index: autosetup/sqlite-config.tcl
==================================================================
--- autosetup/sqlite-config.tcl	
+++ autosetup/sqlite-config.tcl	
@@ -2258,10 +2258,11 @@
   if {[proj-opt-truthy rpath]} {
     proj-check-rpath
   } else {
     msg-result "Disabling use of rpath."
     define LDFLAGS_RPATH ""
+    define LDFLAGS_TCLLIBDIR_RPATH ""
   }
 }
 
 ########################################################################
 # If the --dump-defines configure flag is provided then emit a list of

Index: main.mk
==================================================================
--- main.mk	
+++ main.mk	
@@ -163,10 +163,11 @@
 # to use the one(s) it needs.
 #
 LDFLAGS.zlib ?= -lz
 LDFLAGS.math ?= -lm
 LDFLAGS.rpath ?= -Wl,-rpath -Wl,$(prefix)/lib
+LDFLAGS.libtclsqlite3.rpath ?= -Wl,-rpath,$$TCLLIBDIR
 LDFLAGS.pthread ?= -lpthread
 LDFLAGS.dlopen ?= -ldl
 LDFLAGS.shlib ?= -shared
 LDFLAGS.rt ?= # nanosleep on some platforms
 LDFLAGS.icu ?= # -licui18n -licuuc -licudata
@@ -1647,11 +1648,11 @@
 
 $(libtclsqlite3.DLL): $(T.tcl.env.sh) tclsqlite.o $(LIBOBJ)
 	$(T.tcl.env.source); \
 	$(T.link.shared) -o $@ tclsqlite.o \
 		$$TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC $$TCL_STUB_LIB_SPEC $(LDFLAGS.libsqlite3) \
-		$(LIBOBJ) -Wl,-rpath,$$TCLLIBDIR
+		$(LIBOBJ) $(LDFLAGS.libtclsqlite3.rpath)
 # ^^^ that rpath bit is defined as TCL_LD_SEARCH_FLAGS in
 # tclConfig.sh, but it's defined in such a way as to be useless for a
 # _static_ makefile.
 $(libtclsqlite3.DLL)-1: $(libtclsqlite3.DLL)
 $(libtclsqlite3.DLL)-0 $(libtclsqlite3.DLL)-: