diff --git a/pbzip2.spec b/pbzip2.spec
index 9c99ccd..1e7351d 100644
--- a/pbzip2.spec
+++ b/pbzip2.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,11 @@ f=AUTHORS; iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 $f > $f.utf8 && mv $f.utf8 $f
 
 
 %build
-CFLAGS="%{optflags}" LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}" make %{?_smp_mflags}
+export CFLAGS="-fpic %{optflags}"
+export CXXFLAGS="-fpic %{optflags}"
+export LDFLAGS="%{?__global_ldflags}"
+
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 
 %install