Support azure-quantum[qiskit] installation on macOS M2

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I am trying to install azure-quantum in Apple Mac M2 under pyenv-virtualenv, and found the following trouble. When I run the code

from azure.quantum.qiskit import AzureQuantumProvider

as in this instruction, I encounter

File ~/.pyenv/versions/...../site-packages/azure/quantum/qiskit/backends/rigetti.py:16
     14 from qiskit.providers.models import BackendConfiguration
     15 from qiskit.providers import Options
---> 16 from qiskit_qir import SUPPORTED_INSTRUCTIONS as QIR_BASIS_GATES
     18 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     19     from azure.quantum.qiskit import AzureQuantumProvider
ImportError: cannot import name 'SUPPORTED_INSTRUCTIONS' from 'qiskit_qir'_

It seems that this bug has already been fixed here in GitHub. However, for ARM devices, pip cannot install the latest version of azure-quantum (ver. 0.27.258160) due to the compatibility. For example, pip selects the packages such as

• numpy-1.24.2-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
• aiohttp-3.8.4-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl
• aiofile-3.8.5-py3-none-any.whl
• azure_quantum-0.27.238334-py3-none-any.whl

A quick-and-dirty fix would be to remove the line

from qiskit_qir import SUPPORTED_INSTRUCTIONS as QIR_BASIS_GATES

from microsoft.py, qci.py and rigetti.py by hand. Incidentally, I also found

from qiskit_qir.visitor import SUPPORTED_INSTRUCTIONS as QIR_BASIS_GATES

seems to work (N.B. my job sent to IonQ has failed after waiting for a month. So this workaround may not work)

A related issue was reported here. I uninstalled and reinstalled pyqir and qiskit-qir, but it does not help. Here are my package versions;

• python: 3.10.10
• qiskit: 0.42.1
• pyqir: 0.8.0
• qiskit-qir: 0.3.1
• azure-quantum: 0.27.238334