Error compilling Lua-SDL2

[Bernd Eggink <monoped@...>]

When I tried to compile Lua-SDL2-2.0.3-1 on 64-bit Linux, I got:

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/usr/bin/ld: /usr/bin/liblua.a(lapi.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against 
`luaO_nilobject_' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile 
with -fPIC
/usr/bin/liblua.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
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This went away after re-compiling Lua with -fPIC, but I'm not sure about 
the consequences. I haven't been programming in C for about 20 years, so 
can anybody comment on this?

Thanks,
Bernd