pip_install should accept global install options

[mopuru-murali]

When bazel builds a py3_image with pyyaml as one of its requirements it always fails with

File "/app/microservices/machineforge/manage.binary.runfiles/pypi__PyYAML_3_12/yaml/init.py", line 2, in
from error import *
ImportError: No module named 'error'

even though you specify python_version as attribute to it.

The reason is - bazel builds _yaml.so file (with pip install) which does not work with python3 based container py3_image (io_bazel_rules_docker). There are few other python packages like pyyaml which installs C-version of it (with .so files) by default if its dependent C-libs/devels are available in the host OS.

FYR, https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml

On the other side - building py3_image from python3 based host is also not possible because many python packages are NOT python3 compliant. It will fail with similar errors like

File "", line 544, in spec_from_file_location
File "/root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/2db3a13de410fd07a0f02c32e96a85ac/external/puller/file/downloaded/httplib2/init.py", line 988
raise socket.error, msg
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

so pip_install or pip_import should accept flags or options to skip building and installing C-bindings so that its possible to

pip install pyyaml --global-option=--without-libyaml

More details about the bug:
pypa/pip#2677

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