fix hdf5 compiler check

[rem1776]

Description Changes the configure check used to determine if a bug in hdf5 is present. Before it was using nf90_open which wouldn't work on certain systems.

Fixes #1492

How Has This Been Tested? tested on gaea, amd box, and my laptop

Checklist:

• [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
• [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• [x] My changes generate no new warnings
• [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules
• [x] New check tests, if applicable, are included
• [x] make distcheck passes

[rem1776]

This needed one other change for distcheck to pass. I also ran into a separate issue with the monin test script when i was testing this on different systems so I just included the fix here, just needed to force the rm so it wouldn't hang.