Similar change was done for applications long ago. They're built always
as static (as they're tiny) and original expectation was that they would
get linked just to the final executable and not any shared library, thus
not needing the -fPIC. But real-world experience was different, so I
added that. The same needs to be done for (also static) context
libraries, yet somehow I forgot until now.
Vladimír Vondruš