Scipy missing OpenBLAS dependency

[tobin-ford]

Describe the bug
openBLAS dependency missing on fresh editable PVDeg install in fresh conda environment.

To Reproduce
fresh conda environment: Python 3.13.1 on Kestrel
create a fresh PVDeg editdable install, pip install -e . from the PVDegradationTools main directory.

Collecting scipy<1.14.0 (from pvdeg==0.3.5.dev243+gfe22aef.d20250127)
  Downloading scipy-1.13.1.tar.gz (57.2 MB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 57.2/57.2 MB 186.0 MB/s eta 0:00:00
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [44 lines of output]
      + meson setup /tmp/pip-install-rhaqlmhw/scipy_706edc7af9b345029cf821e9b9216817 /tmp/pip-install-rhaqlmhw/scipy_706edc7af9b345029cf821e9b9216817/.mesonpy-7saz45qg -Dbuildtype=release -Db_ndebug=if-release -Db_vscrt=md --native-file=/tmp/pip-install-rhaqlmhw/scipy_706edc7af9b345029cf821e9b9216817/.mesonpy-7saz45qg/meson-python-native-file.ini
      The Meson build system
      Version: 1.7.0
      Source dir: /tmp/pip-install-rhaqlmhw/scipy_706edc7af9b345029cf821e9b9216817
      Build dir: /tmp/pip-install-rhaqlmhw/scipy_706edc7af9b345029cf821e9b9216817/.mesonpy-7saz45qg
      Build type: native build
      Project name: scipy
      Project version: 1.13.1
      C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 12.2.1 "gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20221121 (Red Hat 12.2.1-7)")
      C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.38-17
      C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 12.2.1 "c++ (GCC) 12.2.1 20221121 (Red Hat 12.2.1-7)")
      C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.38-17
      Cython compiler for the host machine: cython (cython 3.0.11)
      Host machine cpu family: x86_64
      Host machine cpu: x86_64
      Program python found: YES (/home/tford/.conda-envs/reproduce/bin/python3.13)
      Found pkg-config: YES (/bin/pkg-config) 1.4.2
      Run-time dependency python found: YES 3.13
      Program cython found: YES (/tmp/pip-build-env-g01k4zhn/overlay/bin/cython)
      Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-unused-but-set-variable: YES
      Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-unused-function: YES
      Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-conversion: YES
      Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-misleading-indentation: YES
      Library m found: YES
      Fortran compiler for the host machine: gfortran (gcc 12.2.1 "GNU Fortran (GCC) 12.2.1 20221121 (Red Hat 12.2.1-7)")
      Fortran linker for the host machine: gfortran ld.bfd 2.38-17
      Compiler for Fortran supports arguments -Wno-conversion: YES
      Checking if "-Wl,--version-script" links: YES
      Program pythran found: YES 0.15.0 0.15.0 (/tmp/pip-build-env-g01k4zhn/overlay/bin/pythran)
      Found CMake: /bin/cmake (3.20.2)
      WARNING: CMake Toolchain: Failed to determine CMake compilers state
      Run-time dependency xsimd found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
      Run-time dependency threads found: YES
      Library npymath found: YES
      Library npyrandom found: YES
      pybind11-config found: YES (/tmp/pip-build-env-g01k4zhn/overlay/bin/pybind11-config) 2.12.1
      Run-time dependency pybind11 found: YES 2.12.1
      Run-time dependency scipy-openblas found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
      Run-time dependency openblas found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
      Run-time dependency openblas found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
      
      ../scipy/meson.build:163:9: ERROR: Dependency "OpenBLAS" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
      
      A full log can be found at /tmp/pip-install-rhaqlmhw/scipy_706edc7af9b345029cf821e9b9216817/.mesonpy-7saz45qg/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

To Fix
$ conda install conda-forge::openblas