[yt-dev] Install script issue

[Andrew Myers]

Hello yt developers,

I don't know if this is a "bug," exactly, but I noticed an issue when doing
a clean install of yt today involving the h5py install. Namely, it looks
like if you have an non-empty CFLAGS environment variable (which can happen
without your knowledge if you load certain module files in a supercomputing
environment, for example), the h5py build will proceed without getting the
"-fno-strict-aliasing" flag and the resulting module will not work. You can
get around this either by 1) clobbering CFLAGS, or 2) adding
"-fno-strict-aliasing" to it and re-running the script.

It seems like the install script should either detect this and work around
it, or else warn you that the h5py build has gone of the rails after the
installation, because the tracebacks you get from trying to use the
whacked-out h5py module are not very illuminating. I would do this myself,
but I'm not sure my shell scripting skills are up to the task.

Thanks,
Andrew
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