What is going on with the ubuntu/debian debacle ?

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 09:00:08 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 November 2016 at 05:01:06 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 19 November 2016 at 23:03:05 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> A lot of users are reporting errors on debian and ubuntu. .o 
>>> generated by dmd do not link and libphobos.a is unusable.
>>>
>>> This is very bad and we should consider a hotfix. Is someone 
>>> on it ?
>>
>> This is the PIE by default problem, yes? In which case the hot 
>> fix should just always enable -fPIC for debian/ubuntu.
>>
>>  See also 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/cgifwxqogkvpfrjcioum@forum.dlang.org
>
> That's the hotfix, but in general it's overkill. -fpie is a 
> subset of -fpic, see 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html

The shipped binaries are not compiled with that flag, so, unless 
I use my homebrew of everything, nothing works.