dmd and Archlinux

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:00:51 PM MDT Seb via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> @mleise: OP is using the testing repos where the PIE enforcement
> already landed [1], but libphobos.a isn't built with -fPIC on
> Arch yet.
> The Arch developers, however, are aware of the need to rebuild
> libphobos [2], but maybe we can simply build Phobos with -fPIC by
> default on Posix [3].
>
> [1] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/pie-rebuild
> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54749
> [3] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/5586

PIC and PIE may make sense from security perspective, but they've sure made
dealing with some the Linux distros over the last year or so a bit of a
pain.

- Jonathan M Davis