strange -fPIC compilation error

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 10/31/2016 12:31 PM, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Dne 31.10.2016 v 20:20 Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn napsal(a):
>
>> ...
>>
>> 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.
>
> It should work, it is possible that you have some another dmd.conf 
> somewhere?
>
>
I did have a couple lying around, but they worked fine in the past, and 
renaming them didn't fix, or even just change, anything.  I've still got 
some others on my backup partition, but I can't imagine that they would 
be in use.

One of them was there because I had a few macros that were specified in 
an external ddoc file that was used by one project, e.g.