strange -fPIC compilation error

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 10/30/2016 04:03 PM, Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 October 2016 at 18:02:28 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
>>  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
>
> Are you on Ubuntu 16.10, or some other system with an hardened 
> toolchain? If that's the case, you should compile with `-fPIC 
> -defaultlib=libphobos2.so`. You can put those options in your dmd.conf 
> configuration file, so that you don't have to type them every time.
>
Well, I'm using debian, but I've never had to do anything of that nature 
before.  OTOH, it's been a couple of months if this is a new change.