> 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
Comment #3 by github-bugzilla — 2017-12-22T08:25:01Z