Beta D 2.072.2-b1

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 27 December 2016 at 22:20:08 UTC, sarn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 December 2016 at 04:36:54 UTC, Martin Nowak 
> wrote:
>> -fPIC became default for all linux 64-bit binaries and 
>> packages in order to support PIE (default on Ubuntu 16.10 and 
>> hardened Gentoo).
>
> AFAIK, the only way to disable PIC for a specific build is to 
> use a local dmd.conf that doesn't have -fPIC.
>
> Just a heads up because this might trip up (a small minority 
> of) users (with weird use cases).

Yes correct there is no override, but there shouldn't be any 
use-cases. If people are statically building whole applications 
(with libc) for gains in the per mile region, they will have a 
custom link step already.