Honor variables so static builds work correctly.

This reverts commit 2293455c5ce91beb77053c7c840d5252d38923c4.
See issue #471.
fix over-zealous search and replace
make sure GPIR score state gets registered

close #472
reduce dependency invariant checks to try to speed tests back up
some verbosity outputs
fix saxs merge tests
mark expected failures as such
Merge branch 'develop' into feature/profile_variance