Impose a minimum hdf5 API version of 1.8 to handle all our compression schemes
When using hdf5 1.14.4 or newer, disable the library's checks of the types' size as they conflict with some of our compression filters
Ref: https://docs.hdfgroup.org/hdf5/v1_14/group___f_a_p_l.html#gafa8e677af3200e155e9208522f8e05c0
Edited by Matthieu Schaller