BLD: add option to specify numpy header location #22477

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macos-13 actions-310.yaml	9m 47s
macos-13 actions-311.yaml	9m 57s
macos-13 actions-312.yaml	10m 22s
macos-14 actions-310.yaml	1m 58s
macos-14 actions-311.yaml	1m 56s
macos-14 actions-312.yaml	2m 5s
windows-latest actions-311.yaml	13m 34s
windows-latest actions-312.yaml	14m 33s
windows-latest actions-310.yaml	14m 46s
Pyodide build	59s
Linux-Musl	5m 39s
python-dev (macOS-13)	2m 48s
python-dev (macOS-14)	1m 30s
python-dev (ubuntu-22.04)	3m 23s
python-dev (windows-latest)	1m 28s
Minimum Versions	1m 54s
python-freethreading	1m 21s
Locale: zh_CN	12m 59s
Future infer strings (without pyarrow)	13m 6s
Locale: it_IT	13m 11s
Downstream Compat	4m 26s
Numpy Dev	4m 21s
Pyarrow Nightly	4m 30s
Pypy	1m 16s
Future infer strings	13m 19s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-310.yaml	12m 37s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-311.yaml	12m 39s
ubuntu-22.04 actions-312.yaml	13m 5s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-311.yaml	9m 18s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-310.yaml	9m 37s
ubuntu-24.04-arm actions-312.yaml	9m 28s
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