diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
index 43cb26db4c..54cd4336eb 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-qa-checks.xml
@@ -466,6 +466,23 @@ can be found then it should be implemented.  I can't find one at the moment.
                     at runtime.
                 </para>
 
+                <para>
+                    Typically, the way to solve this performance issue is to
+                    add "-fPIC" to the compiler command-line options.
+                    For example, given software that reads
+                    <link linkend='var-CFLAGS'><filename>CFLAGS</filename></link>
+                    when you build it, you can add the following to your
+                    recipe:
+                    <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     CFLAGS_append = " -fPIC "
+                    </literallayout>
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                    For more information on text relocations at runtime, see
+                    <ulink url='http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/textrelocs.html'></ulink>.
+                </para>
+
                 <para>
                     &nbsp;
                 </para>