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

[rcorre via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 12:04:45 UTC, rcorre wrote:
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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
> ===
>
> I'm seeing the above trying to compile a simple d program.
>
> /tmp/d.d:
> ===
> void main() { }
> ===
>
> Any idea what this might be? I'm on dmd 2.071.0 on Archlinux.

My desktop is fine (Archlinux, same DMD version, both recently 
updated). I'm guessing this is some weird misconfiguration on my 
laptop that happened fairly recently.