'How to deploy a shared library with cmake on Linux

I have shared library called "libmylib.so" which sits inside a folder "LIBS" outside my application source directory. To link the library to my main executable, I'm using the following CMake commands:

set(LIBS_FOLDER "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../LIBS")
find_library(MYLIB NAMES mylib libmylib mylib.dll HINTS ${LIBS_FOLDER})

target_link_libraries(MyApp PUBLIC ${MYLIB})

This works well on both Linux and Windows, however on Linux when I deploy my application the executable links to mylib using its absolute path. Indeed, running ldd MyApp shows that it is linked to:

libmylib.so => /absolute_path_to_libs_dir/libmylib.so (0x00007f9dae78f000)

This is obviously a problem since I can't deploy this to any environment. How can I get around this problem? Is there way to link and deploy the shared library correctly?

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