Failure running asv with healpy on Mac OS

[camposandro]

Running asv locally on Mac OS fails for projects containing the healpy dependency.

The log trace is rather long - here's a short snippet of the observed error messages:

Failed to build healpy
   STDERR -------->
     error: subprocess-exited-with-error
 
     × Building wheel for healpy (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
     │ exit code: 1
     ╰─> [1156 lines of output]

     note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
     ERROR: Failed building wheel for healpy
 
   ...

   ERROR: Could not build wheels for healpy, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects
 
   ...
 
·· Failed to build the project and import the benchmark suite.

Users have reported being unable to install healpy on Mac OS via pip (compilation issues). An alternative would consist of changing the environment manager to conda, which is also accepted by asv. However, conda's support for pyproject.toml is still a work in progress (more info).

[camposandro]

Closing this ticket as we're not facing the issue anymore!