dmd: can't build on Arch Linux or latest Ubuntu

[Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 21:03:30 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Wed, 10 May 2017 20:59:33 +0300
> schrieb ketmar <ketmar at ketmar.no-ip.org>:
>
>> > On Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 11:51:03 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> >> I can't build dmd on Arch Linux anymore. I'm told it's 
>> >> because of a binutils update. Annoying.
>> >
>> yeah, the great thing. i was hit by that bus too, and had to 
>> mutilate druntime to make unittests work again. lucky me, i'm 
>> using static phobos. don't even want to think about the scale 
>> of the disaster for people with libphobos2.so...
>
> O.O
>
> Like what will happen to us on Gentoo with libphobos2.so when 
> binutils-2.8 moves to stable here? And can it all be solved by 
> compiling with -fPIC, like is required for hardened 
> installations anyways or are there dmd versions that flat out 
> wont work any longer?

What, in half a year or more? :) I'd say we're safe.