Build failure on amd64 due to neon default-static behaviour

See my original mail on this subject:
http://www.tigris.org/servlets/PasswordEdit?userID=77643&ticket=b48830fab353ea02d756a48d43319274

I downloaded the subversion 1.4.0 tar file and ran configure and make on a SuSE
9.3 (x86-64) system.  It failed to compile since it tries to link a static neon
library compiled without -fPIC into a shared library.

The rest of this report is copied from my mail:

What I did:
$ tar jxf subversion-1.4.0.tar.bz2
$ tar jxf subversion-deps-1.4.0.tar.bz2
$ mkdir builddir
$ cd builddir
$ ../subversion-1.4.0/configure
...
$ make
...
/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
/home/david/src/builddir/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a(ne_request.o): relocation
R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared
object; recompile with -fPIC


This is an excerpt from the configure output:

> configure: Configured to build neon 0.25.5:
> 
>   Install prefix:  /usr/local
>   Compiler:        gcc
>   XML Parser:      expat
>   SSL library:     SSL support is not enabled
>   zlib support:    zlib support enabled, using -lz
>   Build libraries: Shared=no, Static=yes
> 
> neon configured properly

If I manually go in and update builddir/neon/src/Makefile to add -fPIC
to CFLAGS, it will compile cleanly, but I'm not sure that is the
correct solution.  My libtool knowledge is pretty limited.

Some more information:

$ uname
Linux knatte 2.6.16.20 #3 SMP Fri Jun 16 15:19:04 CEST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 20050117 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Original issue reported by dkagedal