Needed on Ubuntu 18.04. Otherwise we get errors like
/usr/bin/ld: h5mdtest.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.text' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: h5mdplugin.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
with clang or
/usr/bin/ld: h5mdplugin.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `H5T_NATIVE_FLOAT_g@@HDF5_SERIAL_1.8.7' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
Needed on Ubuntu 18.04. Otherwise we get errors like
with clang or
with gcc.