Index: /issm/trunk/externalpackages/mpich/install-3.0-linux64-static.sh
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk/externalpackages/mpich/install-3.0-linux64-static.sh	(revision 22232)
+++ /issm/trunk/externalpackages/mpich/install-3.0-linux64-static.sh	(revision 22233)
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -eu
+
+export CXXFLAGS="-fPIC"
+export CFLAGS="-fPIC"
+export FFLAGS="-fPIC"
 
 #Some cleanup
Index: /issm/trunk/externalpackages/petsc/install-3.6-linux64-static.sh
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk/externalpackages/petsc/install-3.6-linux64-static.sh	(revision 22232)
+++ /issm/trunk/externalpackages/petsc/install-3.6-linux64-static.sh	(revision 22233)
@@ -29,5 +29,10 @@
 	--download-mumps=1 \
 	--download-fblaslapack=1 \
-	--download-scalapack=1
+	--download-scalapack=1 \
+	--CFLAGS="-fPIC" \
+	--CC_LINKER_FLAGS="-fPIC" \
+	--CXXFLAGS="-fPIC" \
+	--FFLAGS="-fPIC" \
+	--FC_LINKER_FLAGS="-fPIC"
 	
 #Compile and intall
Index: /issm/trunk/jenkins/linux64_ross_static
===================================================================
--- /issm/trunk/jenkins/linux64_ross_static	(revision 22232)
+++ /issm/trunk/jenkins/linux64_ross_static	(revision 22233)
@@ -23,5 +23,6 @@
 	--with-m1qn3-dir=$ISSM_DIR/externalpackages/m1qn3/install \
 	--with-fortran-lib="-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9 -lgfortran" \
-	--with-numthreads=4'
+	--with-numthreads=4 \
+	--with-cxxoptflags="-fPIC"'
 
 #PYTHON and MATLAB testing