diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/host-ipmid/host-ipmid.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/host-ipmid/host-ipmid.bb
index 7b78fd0..bca0eee 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/host-ipmid/host-ipmid.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/host-ipmid/host-ipmid.bb
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 inherit obmc-phosphor-license
 inherit obmc-phosphor-sdbus-service
 
-TARGET_CFLAGS   += "-fpic"
-
 DEPENDS += "phosphor-mapper"
 DEPENDS += "autoconf-archive-native"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev += "phosphor-mapper-dev"