https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16794
--- Comment #5 from Jonathan M Davis <issues.dl...@jmdavisprog.com> --- Personally, I actively avoid using the shared version of Phobos, because it makes it very annoying to deal with multiple versions of it, which comes up often when you're actually working on Phobos rather than just installing dmd from the .zip or .deb or whatever. It's also just way nicer to be able to build a binary and not have to worry about rebuilding it because of changes to other stuff on your system. So, regardless of what happens to the actual .deb file, I definitely think that it should be _possible_ to compile phobos as a static library and use it with -fPIC, and right now, as far as I can tell, it isn't - or at least, what you get doesn't work correctly, since the resulting dmd can't build libdruntime.a. --
