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 12:48:46 UTC, rcorre wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 12:04:45 UTC, rcorre wrote:
>> ===
>> $ 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.

Compiling with -fPIC doesn't help.