diff --git a/src/cmd/go/build.go b/src/cmd/go/build.go
index df74338593..0c2bc5f268 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/build.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/build.go
@@ -2943,7 +2943,9 @@ func (b *builder) cgo(p *Package, cgoExe, obj string, pcCFLAGS, pcLDFLAGS, cgofi
 	var linkobj []string
 
 	var bareLDFLAGS []string
-	// filter out -lsomelib, -l somelib, *.{so,dll,dylib}, and (on Darwin) -framework X
+	// When linking relocatable objects, various flags need to be
+	// filtered out as they are inapplicable and can cause some linkers
+	// to fail.
 	for i := 0; i < len(cgoLDFLAGS); i++ {
 		f := cgoLDFLAGS[i]
 		switch {
@@ -2959,7 +2961,6 @@ func (b *builder) cgo(p *Package, cgoExe, obj string, pcCFLAGS, pcLDFLAGS, cgofi
 		case strings.HasSuffix(f, ".dylib"),
 			strings.HasSuffix(f, ".so"),
 			strings.HasSuffix(f, ".dll"):
-			continue
 		// Remove any -fsanitize=foo flags.
 		// Otherwise the compiler driver thinks that we are doing final link
 		// and links sanitizer runtime into the object file. But we are not doing
@@ -2968,6 +2969,16 @@ func (b *builder) cgo(p *Package, cgoExe, obj string, pcCFLAGS, pcLDFLAGS, cgofi
 		// See issue 8788 for details.
 		case strings.HasPrefix(f, "-fsanitize="):
 			continue
+		// runpath flags not applicable unless building a shared
+		// object or executable; see issue 12115 for details.  This
+		// is necessary as Go currently does not offer a way to
+		// specify the set of LDFLAGS that only apply to shared
+		// objects.
+		case strings.HasPrefix(f, "-Wl,-rpath"):
+			if f == "-Wl,-rpath" || f == "-Wl,-rpath-link" {
+				// Skip following argument to -rpath* too.
+				i++
+			}
 		default:
 			bareLDFLAGS = append(bareLDFLAGS, f)
 		}