diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4a5bd9ff80e3ae2425d1b6d9b7d83662e3d458d1..7aea4643ad60d14c0101d687a1ab50e83a8ba556 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@
 
  Changes between 0.9.1c and 0.9.2
 
+  *) Allow DSO flags like -fpic, -fPIC, -KPIC etc. to be specified
+     on the `perl Configure ...' command line. This way one can compile
+     OpenSSL libraries with Position Independent Code (PIC) which is needed
+     for linking it into DSOs.
+     [Ralf S. Engelschall]
+
   *) Remarkably, export ciphers were totally broken and no-one had noticed!
      Fixed.
      [Ben Laurie]
diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index d7eb1ffe9624a0abb6c559fec9e6e2eefc12afcc..f9f92c34ee4be74c80bc15c92c5c98f98fd13306 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -289,9 +289,13 @@ foreach (@ARGV)
 			{
 			$flags.=$_." ";
 			}
+		elsif ($_ =~ /^-[fK](.*)$/)
+			{
+			$flags.=$_." ";
+			}
 		else
 			{
-			die "unknown options, only -Dxxx, -Lxxx and -lxxx supported\n";
+			die "unknown options, only -Dxxx, -Lxxx, -lxxx, -fxxx and -Kxxx are supported\n";
 			}
 		}
 	else