conda-forge/mdanalysis-feedstock#28
^^ On the 1.0.1 builds Windows is failing because some of the sources in the sdist are given as absolute paths.
This is a good description:
https://github.com/pyFFTW/pyFFTW/pull/250/files
It looks like we started trying to use abspath to get RTD to work here:
#2749
probably because of our slightly unusual repo structure