diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aa7ef045..845e0c81 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 1999-01-20  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
 
+	* ltconfig.in (sunos4*, without_gnu_ld, with_gcc, archive_cmds):
+ 	add -fPIC, because libgcc is multilibbed, and we want the PIC
+ 	version of it for shared libraries, otherwise ld complains
+
 	* demo/dlmain.c (main): add missing const to declaration of name
 
 	* libltdl/ltdl.c (find_module): remove the libdir argument, and
diff --git a/ltconfig.in b/ltconfig.in
index de77eb99..c3c155a8 100755
--- a/ltconfig.in
+++ b/ltconfig.in
@@ -1325,7 +1325,8 @@ else
   sunos4*)
     # Why do we need -Bstatic?  To avoid inter-library dependencies, maybe...
     if test "$with_gcc" = yes; then
-      archive_cmds='$CC -shared ${wl}-Bstatic -o $lib $libobjs $deplibs'
+      # Use -fPIC here because libgcc is multilibbed
+      archive_cmds='$CC -shared ${wl}-Bstatic -fPIC -o $lib $libobjs $deplibs'
     else
       archive_cmds='$LD -assert pure-text -Bstatic -o $lib $libobjs $deplibs'
     fi