It is still not possible to use D on debian/ubuntu

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 02:31:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 11:55:37PM +0000, deadalnix via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> But it is not clear if anyone cares at this stage...
>
> I care. But I've been using custom-built DMD on Debian, and it 
> has been working so far.
>
> Of course, I don't know about the .deb distribution. A fix was 
> recently pushed, but I don't know if that fixed the problem.  
> My solution was basically to built druntime & phobos with -fPIC 
> so that static libphobos.a is PIC. But my solution was declined 
> in bugzilla and a different fix was opted for.

Linking against shared phobos was just mentioned as immediate 
workaround.

Changing over to -fPIC by default amd64 was one of multiple 
options that had to be carefully evaluated. It's fairly trivial 
to just demand a certain change without considering it's impact.