Cannot link with libphobos2.a with GCC 6.2 on Ubuntu 16.10

[tcak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 16 October 2016 at 17:42:44 UTC, tcak wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 17:02:32 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I have upgraded my Ubuntu to 16.10 yesterday as well, and I am 
> getting following error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: obj/Debug/program.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 
> against symbol `_D9Exception7__ClassZ' can not be used when 
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: 
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(object_1_257.o): 
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' 
> can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with 
> -fPIC
> ...
>
> I guess the problem is same. Even though I have added 
> "-defaultlib=libphobos2.so" to compiler options, problem 
> persists.

Hmm. As the error message says, I compiled the program by adding 
"-fPIC", it really has stopped giving error messages. That came 
to me weird.