g++ assumes libstdc++ in library path?

[Georg Schwarz]

It looks like gcc/g++ assume that the path where libstdc++ is installed,
i.e. typically PREFIX/lib, is in the runtime library path. If that is
not the case, launching an executable compiled with gcc/g++ fails with
rld: Fatal Error: cannot map soname
'libstdc++.so.7' using any of the filenames [...]

This is gcc 3.4.0 on IRIX 5.3 using the native SGI ld.
Can gcc be compiled to link executables with an appropriate -rpath
option, when necessary, i.e. when libstdc++ is needed? 

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