Failing Tests in `Test_OpenQasmDevice.cpp` when installing on MacOS

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Issue description

Expected behavior

When following the installation guide on https://docs.pennylane.ai/projects/catalyst/en/stable/dev/installation.html#minimal-building-from-source-guide for MacOS, after the step make test all tests should pass.

Actual behavior

• After executing make test the last lines of the output are the following:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Test PSWAP and ISWAP with BuilderType::Braket
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/Users/yannick/Documents/TUM/CDA/Research/playgrounds/Catalyst/catalyst/runtime/tests/Test_OpenQasmDevice.cpp:529
...............................................................................

/Users/yannick/Documents/TUM/CDA/Research/playgrounds/Catalyst/catalyst/runtime/tests/Test_OpenQasmDevice.cpp:529: FAILED:
due to unexpected exception with message:
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'braket'

At:
    <string>(3): <module>

===============================================================================
test cases:  33 |  28 passed |  5 failed
assertions: 177 | 151 passed | 26 failed

make[1]: *** [test] Error 26
make: *** [test-runtime] Error 2

System information

Machine: Mac M1, Mac M2, Mac M3, with MacOS 15.0.1 installed. Python used in a virtualenv: 3.11.9 and 3.12.6

The output of import pennylane as qml; qml.about():

Name: PennyLane
Version: 0.39.0.dev26
Summary: PennyLane is a cross-platform Python library for quantum computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry. Train a quantum computer the same way as a neural network.
Home-page: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane
Author:
Author-email:
License: Apache License 2.0
Location: /Users/yannick/.pyenv/versions/catalyst/lib/python3.11/site-packages
Requires: appdirs, autograd, autoray, cachetools, networkx, numpy, packaging, pennylane-lightning, requests, rustworkx, scipy, toml, typing-extensions
Required-by: amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin, PennyLane-Catalyst, PennyLane_Lightning, PennyLane_Lightning_Kokkos

Platform info:           macOS-15.0.1-arm64-arm-64bit
Python version:          3.11.9
Numpy version:           2.0.0
Scipy version:           1.13.0
Installed devices:
- default.clifford (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- default.gaussian (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- default.mixed (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- default.qubit (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- default.qutrit (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- default.qutrit.mixed (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- default.tensor (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- null.qubit (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- reference.qubit (PennyLane-0.39.0.dev26)
- lightning.qubit (PennyLane_Lightning-0.39.0.dev38)
- nvidia.custatevec (PennyLane-Catalyst-0.9.0.dev30)
- nvidia.cutensornet (PennyLane-Catalyst-0.9.0.dev30)
- oqc.cloud (PennyLane-Catalyst-0.9.0.dev30)
- softwareq.qpp (PennyLane-Catalyst-0.9.0.dev30)
- lightning.kokkos (PennyLane_Lightning_Kokkos-0.39.0.dev38)
- braket.aws.ahs (amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin-1.30.1)
- braket.aws.qubit (amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin-1.30.1)
- braket.local.ahs (amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin-1.30.1)
- braket.local.qubit (amazon-braket-pennylane-plugin-1.30.1)

Additional information

• On Ubuntu this behavour could not be reproduced and everything has worked as expected.
• After installing the libraries into the system python version the test went through on one machine. Hence, the assumption is that for those tests the system python version is used instead of the version from the virtual environment.