On Jun 3, 2019, at 04:20, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Would it be possible (and acceptable) to prevent the kind of build failure > we're talking about here by setting up a temporary symlink to a sanctioned > python interpreter in a build-specific tmp directory and prepend that > directory to the configure/build/destroot paths (if there isn't one yet)?
Sure. I did something like that recently for gettext, except it was for finding Java, and it was to ensure it *wouldn't* find it. But the approach would be similar. https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/bc14fab6bb3f642b867b90c0481e3f7449177d18