Removed the capability to have multiple aliases for the same transform plugin for now. This greatly simplifies some code, especially the plugin detection code, and by doing so fixes a compilation error on BlueGene
Merge branch 'xml-aliases-fix'

This fix removes multiple aliases for transform plugins in the XML. This simplifies the code, and fixes a compilation issue on BlueGene.
Fixed a bug in the transforms_specparse.c test that was causing non-deterministic failures on some systems (only the test itself was broken, not the feature it was testing).
Merge branch 'specparse-test-fix'

This fix addresses an error in the transforms_specparse.c test that was causing sporadic
failures on some systems due to non-deterministic behavior.