strange -fPIC compilation error

[TheGag96 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 07:16:50 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan 
wrote:
> Hello,
> From GCC 6.2, -fpie is becoming the default setting at compile 
> and at link time.
> As dmd uses GCC to link, now the code needs to be compiled with 
> a special option.
> Which means you need, at the moment, to add the following 
> options to your dmd.conf:
>  -defaultlib=libphobos2.so -fPIC
> (the change from GCC is related to security and address space 
> randomization).

So does this mean it's now impossible to compile statically until 
this gets fixed?