strange -fPIC compilation error

[Charles Hixson via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 11/01/2016 12:52 AM, Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 07:15:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>> but
>>> dmd -defaultlib=libphobos2.so -fPIC test.d
>>> works.  It shouldn't be required (as in the default /etc/dmd.conf 
>>> should handle it correctly, but I can deal with it now.
>
> Can this be fed as parameters to the DMD call (programmatically) 
> instead of manual editing of dmd.conf?
>
I did feed it into the dmd call programmatically.  Thus:
  dmd -defaultlib=libphobos2.so -fPIC test.d

I'm reluctant to edit the dmd.conf file as I don't really understand the 
syntax...and I have to be root to do the editing.