From 25165d23991d4074cbc037c952a99312e455db3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduardo Schettino <schettino72@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:37:05 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] BLD: meson, mark xsimd as not required (pkg-config not
 available on pip envs). (gh-15698)

---
 scipy/meson.build | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scipy/meson.build b/scipy/meson.build
index f2dabf36b6ab..450a886715ad 100644
--- a/scipy/meson.build
+++ b/scipy/meson.build
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ if use_pythran
     check: true
   ).stdout().strip()
   inc_pythran = include_directories(incdir_pythran)
-  xsimd_dep = dependency('xsimd')
+  # required explicit dependency on "some" installations with conda gh-15698
+  xsimd_dep = dependency('xsimd', required: false)
 else
   inc_pythran = []
 endif