diff --git a/packages/compress/xz/package.mk b/packages/compress/xz/package.mk
index b0ef00e305..0974846d8d 100644
--- a/packages/compress/xz/package.mk
+++ b/packages/compress/xz/package.mk
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ PKG_SITE="http://tukaani.org/xz/"
 PKG_URL="http://tukaani.org/xz/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="A free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio."
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="+pic"
 
 # never build shared or k0p happens when building
 # on fedora due to host selinux/liblzma