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:

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