diff --git a/tigervnc.changes b/tigervnc.changes
index ee39df1..6f4a647 100644
--- a/tigervnc.changes
+++ b/tigervnc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Nov 16 09:33:04 UTC 2014 - oscar@naiandei.net
+
+- add -fPIC to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to compile correctly on armv7l 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Oct 30 13:33:27 UTC 2014 - msrb@suse.com
 
diff --git a/tigervnc.spec b/tigervnc.spec
index 1a47147..07cafad 100644
--- a/tigervnc.spec
+++ b/tigervnc.spec
@@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ patch -p1 < ../xserver114.patch
 popd
 
 %build
-export CXXFLAGS="%optflags"
-export CFLAGS="%optflags"
+export CXXFLAGS="%optflags -fPIC"
+export CFLAGS="%optflags -fPIC"
 # Build all tigervnc
 cmake -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=%{_prefix} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
 make %{?_smp_mflags}