Cannot install in a virtual env when GDAL is not available

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What happened?

When I try to install earthkit into a fresh venv with

pip install earthkit

it fails with the error posted below. This happens because rasterio, which is a mandatory dependency for earthkit-transforms, fails. It seems to require GDAL to be installed.

Collecting rasterio (from earthkit-transforms>=0.3.4->earthkit==0.6.3)
  Using cached rasterio-1.4.2.tar.gz (441 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
 
  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [2 lines of output]
      WARNING:root:Failed to get options via gdal-config: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gdal-config'
      ERROR: A GDAL API version must be specified. Provide a path to gdal-config using a GDAL_CONFIG environment variable or use a GDAL_VERSION environment variable.
      [end of output]
 
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
 
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error: subprocess-exited-with-error
 
× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.
 
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

What are the steps to reproduce the bug?

Try pip install earthkit in a freshly created venv.

Version

latest

Platform (OS and architecture)

MacBook Pro, MacOS 13.6.1, Python 3.12.5

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