strange -fPIC compilation error

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 19:20:21 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:

> but
> dmd -defaultlib=libphobos2.so -fPIC test.d
> works.  It shouldn't be required (as in the default 
> /etc/dmd.conf should handle it correctly, but I can deal with 
> it now.

The need to manually add this to dmd.conf is a very recent 
development and only on specific systems. I expect at some point 
they will either become the default or, better, the installer 
scripts will have to detect if they are necessary.