Comment 5 for bug 1319687

Hi Budo,
I don't think your approach is the right one, working against the package maintainer's intent to provide both types of libraries, one with -fPIC and one without.
Check out my update to Debian bug #684116: the package already builds a libsuitesparseconfig_pic.a and simply misses to include it in the binary .deb file. I noticed when going through the patches that were already in the package before yours.