diff --git a/src/cmd/go/internal/work/gc.go b/src/cmd/go/internal/work/gc.go
index 1fbd267e095..a04794bbe5c 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/internal/work/gc.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/internal/work/gc.go
@@ -714,7 +714,21 @@ func (gcToolchain) ldShared(b *Builder, root *Action, toplevelactions []*Action,
 		}
 		ldflags = append(ldflags, d.Package.ImportPath+"="+d.Target)
 	}
-	return b.Shell(root).run(".", targetPath, nil, cfg.BuildToolexec, base.Tool("link"), "-o", targetPath, "-importcfg", importcfg, ldflags)
+
+	// On OS X when using external linking to build a shared library,
+	// the argument passed here to -o ends up recorded in the final
+	// shared library in the LC_ID_DYLIB load command.
+	// To avoid putting the temporary output directory name there
+	// (and making the resulting shared library useless),
+	// run the link in the output directory so that -o can name
+	// just the final path element.
+	// On Windows, DLL file name is recorded in PE file
+	// export section, so do like on OS X.
+	// On Linux, for a shared object, at least with the Gold linker,
+	// the output file path is recorded in the .gnu.version_d section.
+	dir, targetPath := filepath.Split(targetPath)
+
+	return b.Shell(root).run(dir, targetPath, nil, cfg.BuildToolexec, base.Tool("link"), "-o", targetPath, "-importcfg", importcfg, ldflags)
 }
 
 func (gcToolchain) cc(b *Builder, a *Action, ofile, cfile string) error {
diff --git a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/build_shared_reproducible.txt b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/build_shared_reproducible.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7e3bb348f37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/build_shared_reproducible.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[!buildmode:shared] skip
+[short] skip
+[!cgo] skip '-buildmode=shared requires external linking'
+[!GOOS:linux] skip
+
+env GO111MODULE=off
+env CGO_ENABLED=1
+go install -a -trimpath -buildvcs=false -buildmode=shared -pkgdir=pkgdir1 runtime
+go install -a -trimpath -buildvcs=false -buildmode=shared -pkgdir=pkgdir2 runtime
+[GOOS:linux] cmp -q pkgdir1/libruntime.so pkgdir2/libruntime.so