• Sebastien Alaiwan (18/18) Dec 22 2016 $ cat hello.d
• Sebastien Alaiwan (21/21) Dec 22 2016 Just to show that my compiler is up-to-date:
• Johannes Pfau (5/27) Dec 22 2016 Known issue & fixed upstream:

Sebastien Alaiwan <ace17 free.fr> writes:

$ cat hello.d
import std.stdio;

int main()
{
   writefln("Hello, world");
   return 0;
}

$ gdc hello.d
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cc03E6ZO.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against 
symbol 
`_D3std6format18__T10FormatSpecTaZ10FormatSpec6__ctorMFNaNbNcNiNfxAaZS3std6format18__T10Format
pecTaZ10FormatSpec' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
-fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
$




It seems that libphobos isn't compiled with options (-fPIC) 
compatible with default binutils linker requirements.

Sebastien Alaiwan <ace17 free.fr> writes:

Just to show that my compiler is up-to-date:

$ dpkg -l | grep "gdc\|phobos"
ii  gdc                                       4:6.2.1-1           
                  amd64        D compiler (language version 2), 
based on the GCC backend
ii  gdc-6                                     6.2.1-5             
                  amd64        GNU D compiler (version 2)
ii  libgphobos-6-dev:amd64                    6.2.1-5             
                  amd64        Phobos D standard library
ii  libgphobos-dev                            6.2.1-1             
                  amd64        Phobos D standard library
ii  libgphobos68:amd64                        6.2.1-5             
                  amd64        Phobos D standard library (runtime 
library)
$ gdc --version
gdc (Debian 6.2.1-5) 6.2.1 20161124
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  
There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Johannes Pfau <nospam example.com> writes:

Am Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:39:42 +0000
schrieb Sebastien Alaiwan <ace17 free.fr>:

 $ cat hello.d
 import std.stdio;
 
 int main()
 {
    writefln("Hello, world");
    return 0;
 }
 
 $ gdc hello.d
 /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/cc03E6ZO.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against 
 symbol 
 `_D3std6format18__T10FormatSpecTaZ10FormatSpec6__ctorMFNaNbNcNiNfxAaZS3std6format18__T10FormatSpecTaZ10FormatSpec'
 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
 -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: error: ld
 returned 1 exit status $
 


 
 It seems that libphobos isn't compiled with options (-fPIC) 
 compatible with default binutils linker requirements.

Known issue & fixed upstream:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845377#32
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/261