rosinstall fails with "rospack failed to build"

Issuing VERBOSE=1 make against rospack directly it looks like it can't link to 
tinyxml. (output below)

I had libtinyxml-dev and libtinyxml-2.6.2 installed via apt-get.  I purged them 
and tried rosinstall again and got the same error.

Potential clue: I was able to install electric-desktop-full with apt-get 
successfully, but I would get similar errors with rosmake, e.g., when making 
laser_geometry I was getting an error related to linking to eigen.  This 
suggests to me that I'm not installing the system dependencies in a ros friendly 
way.

I'm basically stumped and would really appreciate any suggestions for what to try.

Thanks!

make output follows.

wolverine@x-mansion:/opt/ros/ros/tools/rospack>VERBOSE=1 make
...
Linking CXX shared library ../lib/librospack.so
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/link.txt --verbose=1 
 

/usr/bin/c++  -fPIC -O3 -DNDEBUG  -shared -Wl,-soname,librospack.so -o 
../lib/librospack.so CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/rospack.o 
CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/tinyxml-2.5.3/tinystr.o 
CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/tinyxml-2.5.3/tinyxml.o 
CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/tinyxml-2.5.3/tinyxmlparser.o 
CMakeFiles/rospack.dir/tinyxml-2.5.3/tinyxmlerror.o
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/libstdc++.a(functexcept.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against `std::bad_typeid::~bad_typeid()' can not be used 
when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.3/libstdc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
...

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