Comment by smeenai

Idk about Bazel, but Buck2 (and Buck1, but 2 is better in every way) does handle adding -fPIC for shared libraries and leaving it off when statically linking. Each library has a PIC and non-PIC version, and the appropriate one is selected depending on if the library is being linked into an executable or a shared library. (The versions are only built when needed.) I don't remember if it also handles -fPIE similarly smartly though if you do want position-independent executables.