static libperl?

Earlier today I noticed these lines in this buildfarm log
http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=platypus&dt=2005-08-16%2002:05:00

ccache gcc -O3 -pipe -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -g -fPIC -DPIC -shared -Wl,-x,-soname,libplperl.so.0 plperl.o spi_internal.o SPI.o -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE -L../../../src/port -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-E /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -lperl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE -o libplperl.so.0
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a(perl.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

Does that mean that we are attempting to link against a static libperl.a? I thought we were supposed to inhibit that.

Or am I misreading?

cheers

andrew