diff -ruN libcap-1.10.old/libcap/Makefile libcap-1.10/libcap/Makefile
--- libcap-1.10.old/libcap/Makefile	1999-04-18 00:16:31.000000000 +0200
+++ libcap-1.10/libcap/Makefile	2004-01-14 10:47:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@
 #	@sed -ne '/^#define[ \t]CAP[_A-Z]\+[ \t]\+[0-9]\+/{s/^#define CAP_\([^ \t]*\)[ \t]*\([^ \t]*\)/  \{ \2, \"\1\" \},/;y/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz/;p;}' < /usr/include/linux/capability.h | fgrep -v 0x > cap_names.sed
 
 $(MINLIBNAME): $(OBJS)
-	$(LD) -soname $(MAJLIBNAME) -x -shared -o $@ $(OBJS)
+	$(CC) -Wl,-soname,$(MAJLIBNAME) -Wl,-x -shared -o $@ $(OBJS)
 	ln -sf $(MINLIBNAME) $(MAJLIBNAME)
 	ln -sf $(MAJLIBNAME) $(LIBNAME)
 
 %.o: %.c $(INCLS)
-	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -fpic -c $< -o $@
 
 install: all
 	mkdir -p -m 0755 $(INCDIR)/sys
