strange -fPIC compilation error

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

  dmd --version
DMD64 D Compiler v2.071.2
Copyright (c) 1999-2015 by Digital Mars written by Walter Bright
on debian testing.

dub is installed via apt-get.

Should I revert to an earlier version?  Or what?

The program:


import    std.stdio;

void    main()
{    //int[]    t1;

     //t1    ~=    1;
     //t1    ~=    2;
     //writeln ("t1 = ", t1);
}

fails with the 442 lines of error:

/usr/bin/ld: test.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol 
`__dmd_personality_v0' can not be used when making a shared object; 
recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(exception_224_3b4.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(exception_227_4a2.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(exception_229_5cc.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(dmain2_626_47b.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol `_D6object9Throwable7__ClassZ' can 
not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(dmain2_628_776.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' can not be 
used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(dwarfeh_62b_6b9.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' can not be 
used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
...

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphobos2.a(aaA_51a_53e.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_32 against symbol `__dmd_personality_v0' can not be 
used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1