Linker error for d.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `__dmd_personality_v0'

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$ dmd /tmp/d.d
/usr/bin/ld: d.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against 
`__dmd_personality_v0' can not be used when making a shared 
object; recompile with -fPIC
d.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1
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I'm seeing the above trying to compile a simple d program.

/tmp/d.d:
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void main() { }
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Any idea what this might be? I'm on dmd 2.071.0 on Archlinux.