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

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 January 2017 at 13:58:53 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> 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.

Not to mention that not all linux distributions work this way. 
Even not all the debian -> unbntu ones (such as Mint), and 
certainly not the ones based on red hat.