diff --git a/festival.spec b/festival.spec
index a53693c..ef5598f 100644
--- a/festival.spec
+++ b/festival.spec
@@ -142,14 +142,14 @@ export PATH=`pwd`/bin:$PATH
 pushd speech_tools
 %configure
 
-make CXXFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend" CFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -O0"
+make CXXFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -fPIC" CFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -O0 -fPIC"
 
 #g++ -shared -L../../../speech_tools/lib -lestools -lestbase -leststring -ltermcap -Wl,-soname -Wl,libFestival.so.1 -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib -o ../libFestival.so.1.4.1 *
 
 popd
 
 %configure
-FTLIBDIR=%{_datadir}/festival make  CXXFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend" CFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -O0"
+FTLIBDIR=%{_datadir}/festival make  CXXFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -fPIC" CFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -O0 -fPIC"
 
 mkdir DATA.TMP
 cd DATA.TMP
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ tar xzf %{SOURCE212}
 tar xzf %{SOURCE213}
 
 cd festival/lib/dicts/cmu
-make  CXXFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend" CFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -O0"
+make  CXXFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -fPIC" CFLAGS="-ffriend-injection -fpermissive -Wno-deprecated -Wno-non-template-friend -O0 -fPIC"
 
 cd ../../..