Statically Building VLC Relocation Error

[jidaprano]

Hello,
I am attempting to statically build VLC on Ubuntu MATE 22.04.
I clone the git repo, bootstrap, configure using:
./configure --enable-static
and then build using make. The build goes for a few minutes, then errors with:

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/usr/bin/ld: ./.libs/libvlc_adaptive.a(libvlc_adaptive_la-QualityLevel.o): warning: relocation against `_ZTVSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE@@GLIBCXX_3.4' in read-only section `.text.unlikely' /usr/bin/ld: ./.libs/libvlc_adaptive.a(libvlc_adaptive_la-Segment.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `_ZSt7nothrow@@GLIBCXX_3.4' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value

I'm very inexperienced in this field; how would I go about recompiling with -fPIC? I tried editing the generated Makefile and adding -fPIC to the CFLAGS but that didn't work and I'm not sure what else to do since there is no CMakeLists.txt file.
Thanks in advance for any guidance.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Don't --enable -static.

[jidaprano]

Don't --enable -static.

But won’t the build not be static then?