[Csnd-dev] cs6 build problem

My cs6 tree was n a mess so I have just clones a new tree. ut building
it failed in part with
[ 72%] Linking C shared module ../librtpa.so
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib64/libportaudio.a(pa_front.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [InOut/CMakeFiles/rtpa.dir/build.make:98: librtpa.so] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1103: InOut/CMakeFiles/rtpa.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:166: all] Error 2

Is this an openSuSE (my Linux distro) issue or more general?

==John ffitch