diff --git a/BaseBuild/Basesys/ncurses b/BaseBuild/Basesys/ncurses
index 72bc88f..7bf3157 100644
--- a/BaseBuild/Basesys/ncurses
+++ b/BaseBuild/Basesys/ncurses
@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ premk() {
 }
 
 mk32() {
-	CC="gcc ${BUILDOPTIONS32}" \
-	CXX="g++ ${BUILDOPTIONS32}" \
+	CC="gcc ${BUILDOPTIONS32} -fPIC" \
+	CXX="g++ ${BUILDOPTIONS32} -fPIC" \
 	../ncurses*/configure --prefix=/usr \
 	                      --libdir=/lib \
 			      --with-shared \
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ mk() {
 	else
 		ADDOPTIONS="--libdir=/lib"
 	fi
-	CC="gcc ${BUILDOPTIONS}" \
-	CXX="g++ ${BUILDOPTIONS}" \
+	CC="gcc ${BUILDOPTIONS} -fPIC" \
+	CXX="g++ ${BUILDOPTIONS} -fPIC" \
 	../ncurses*/configure --prefix=/usr \
 		    $ADDOPTIONS \
 	  	    --with-shared \