dmd and Archlinux

[Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 19:21:48 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 18:35:09 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote:
>> [...]
>
>
> I think the Arch Linux TUs are in the process of enabling -fPIC 
> by default, see e.g. [1] - it might be releated to this?
> In any case - building dmd/druntime/phobos with -fPIC enabled 
> is a good idea and since 2.072.2 the official releases do so. 
> Not sure why it's not done on Arch, maybe because Dicebot 
> stepped down as maintainer? (see [2, 3]).
>
> [1] 
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2017-July/028918.html
> [2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/o6fbbu$1qli$1@digitalmars.com
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/post/o6sldo$1pad$1@digitalmars.com

Hi Seb!

I think you are right. Official releases (the ones downloaded 
from dlang.org via curl) work for me.

A. Corbi