diff --git a/packages/textproc/tinyxml/package.mk b/packages/textproc/tinyxml/package.mk
index c38edafd0c..cbc36b7268 100644
--- a/packages/textproc/tinyxml/package.mk
+++ b/packages/textproc/tinyxml/package.mk
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ PKG_LONGDESC="TinyXML is a simple, small, C++ XML parser that can be easily inte
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
 
-PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-static --disable-shared"
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-static --disable-shared --with-pic"
 
 pre_configure_target() {
   export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC"