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precision_typedefs.h is needed by the generalized methods, but only
included when built with MPI. Thus the normal distcheck does not catch
this.

For this, dlopen needs to share symbols globally because MKL internally
uses dynamic loading that doesn't work otherwise.

Add parts to configure.ac and Makefile.am. There is now an additional
flag --enable-python-tests. The tests require the pytest package.

The implementation of the test is a bit hacky because it takes
wrapper.so from .libs. This should probably improbed for better
portability.

By default, python wrapper is not built, only if this switch is
specified.

- depends on python, cython, mpi4py and numpy
- currently only dependency check on python
- should be done optionally
- converts wrapper.pyx to wrapper.c using cython, then compiles this to
  a python extension
- installs the files such that they can be imported with `import pyelpa`
  in python

also adding wrapper for the backwords step

this commit does not work, the generalized EVP problems fail from 2
reasons:
- Cannons algorithm does not work for the processor grid shape we use at
  the moment in tests (It only works if num. of process columns is a
  multiple of num. of process rows, which is not true in ELPA for 2 mpi
  tasks)
- Cannons algorithm does not work as integrated to ELPA for larger
  matrices (not clear why at the moment)

There are 2 new tests, which should work
- test_cannon.c: it tests the new algorithm without going through
  Fortran, as it has been delivered
- test_c_bindings: it tests transfering a 2D fortran matrix to C and
  back, as it is done with the cannons algorithm in the normal ELPA
  tests

- per default only some tests are run
- by setting CHECK_LEVEL=extended all test jobs are run