--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/$_archive")
 noextract=("$_archive")
 md5sums=('84697fc180ab52e34076dbaa79215e1e')

+export CXXFLAGS+=" -fPIC"
+
 _octave_run() {
        octave --no-history --no-init-file --no-window-system -q -f --eval "$*"
 }