https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18013
--- Comment #2 from Seb <greensunn...@gmail.com> --- > Running the test suite in a 32-bit Ubuntu Linux 16.04 VirtualBox guest on the > same host works fine. -fPIC was not required to get a build. Ubuntu introduced PIE-hardening in 16.10: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#Built_as_PIE So you won't have any issues with 16.04 --