diff --git a/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocc b/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocc
index 7a797da21..ae71ffeba 100755
--- a/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocc
+++ b/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocc
@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ for x; do
     # no support for building dynamic shared objects yet. reports
     # indicate that ignoring these flags, helps let autoconf know
     continue
+  elif [ x"$x" = x"-fpie" ] || [ x"$x" = x"-pie" ]; then
+    # no support for position independent executables
+    # https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/1126
+    continue
   elif [ x"$x" = x"-Werror" ] || \
        [ x"$x" = x"-pedantic-errors" ]; then
     # this toolchain is intended for building other people's code
diff --git a/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocross b/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocross
index 555efff09..711c2a79f 100755
--- a/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocross
+++ b/tool/cosmocc/bin/cosmocross
@@ -142,6 +142,10 @@ for x; do
     continue
   elif [ x"$x" = x"-fPIC" ]; then
     continue
+  elif [ x"$x" = x"-fpie" ] || [ x"$x" = x"-pie" ]; then
+    # no support for position independent executables
+    # https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/1126
+    continue
   elif [ x"$x" = x"-r" ] ||
        [ x"$x" = x"-pie" ] ||
        [ x"$x" = x"-shared" ] ||