[Libguestfs] error make guestfs: relocation libfuse.a Bad value

[Skippy VonDrake]

Trying to setup guestfs on a coworkers system and am at a loss about
this error and doing 'make' on version 1.20:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libfuse.a(fuse.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile
with -fPIC
/usr/lib/libfuse.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Installed fuse via:
  sudo apt-get install fuse
  sudo apt-get install libfuse-dev

Tried this before configure:
  export CFLAGS="-fPIC"

And
  ./configure --enable-shared

With and without "--enable-shared".

Never had this problem with my system...

Any suggestions?