<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 05:23:41PM +0000, Christopher Jones wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">But how does one (a) find out the dependency exists and (b) make<br class="">sure the software finds python from MacPorts?</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>Lots of ports take the obvious approach of simply creating a symlink or “python3" to MacPorts’s Python in, say, ${workpath}/bin$, then sticking this directory at the front of PATH.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See, e.g.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/databases/arangodb/Portfile" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/databases/arangodb/Portfile</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>