diff --git a/build/make/configure.sh b/build/make/configure.sh
index e4a3da6b6b2d2445b2f977f4f18501e5d05d091d..86759a97f69c3bf338fd505002b552130541d3c0 100755
--- a/build/make/configure.sh
+++ b/build/make/configure.sh
@@ -562,6 +562,9 @@ process_common_toolchain() {
     mips*)        enable mips;;
     esac
 
+    # PIC is probably what we want when building shared libs
+    enabled shared && soft_enable pic
+
     # Handle darwin variants
     case ${toolchain} in
         *-darwin8-gcc)