@Araq I guess I was expecting a more convoluted process and with it being as quick as it was, it just somehow didn't seem like that was the correct way of doing it.
@blashyrk92 I had tried rpath, but I had actually tried to do it during the compilation step. That was probably a big no no. Using patchelf, everything went off without a hitch. Just made sure that I did the tar command correctly to make sure symlink was preserved (and their targets) and it was all good to go. Thanks for the help both of y'all. I really do appreciate it.
