mathgl build problem

[Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos <eftaxi12@otenet.gr>]

Hello,
when I try to build mathgl in my build environment (not within a clean 
chroot), it fails with message 

 checking hdf5.h usability... no
checking hdf5.h presence... no
checking for hdf5.h... no
Please install hdf5 headers

although /usr/include/hdf5.h header is present because libhdf5-openmpi-dev, 
which provides /usr/include/hdf5.h, has been installed. 

Below are the build-deps in my debian/control file.

Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.2.3~), libltdl-dev, libgsl0-dev, freeglut3-dev, 
 libgl1-mesa-dev | libgl-dev, libpng-dev, libhdf5-lam-dev | libhdf5-mpich-dev 
|
 libhdf5-openmpi-dev | libhdf5-serial-dev | libhdf5-dev, 
 libjpeg-dev, libtiff-dev, libfltk-dev, libqt4-dev, libwxgtk2.8-dev, swig, 
 texinfo, texi2html, texlive, texlive-generic-recommended, octave3.2-headers,
 libgif-dev, autoconf, automake, python, python-dev, python-numpy, python-
support,
 libhdf4-dev, chrpath

Related is the bug #632497. Any help is welcome.

Thanks
Dimitris