strange -fPIC compilation error

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 18:13:32 UTC, TheGag96 wrote:
> On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 07:16:50 UTC, Sebastien Alaiwan 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> From GCC 6.2, -fpie is becoming the default setting at compile 
>> and at link time.
>> As dmd uses GCC to link, now the code needs to be compiled 
>> with a special option.
>> Which means you need, at the moment, to add the following 
>> options to your dmd.conf:
>>  -defaultlib=libphobos2.so -fPIC
>> (the change from GCC is related to security and address space 
>> randomization).
>
> So does this mean it's now impossible to compile statically 
> until this gets fixed?

It's impossible with the default `libphobos2.a`. I didn't try, 
but I'm quite confident that if you clone the Phobos repository 
and rebuild the library yourself with -fPIC, you can then link it 
statically to PIE executables.