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Add note about HomeBrew and PATH variable adjustment.


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    • Added installation guidance for MacPorts environment setup on macOS, including PATH configuration to prevent package manager conflicts.

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Add note about HomeBrew and PATH variable adjustment.
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@highperformancecoder highperformancecoder merged commit 85866f3 into master Dec 7, 2025
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Added instructional guidance to MacRelease.md documentation recommending adding MacPorts bin directory to PATH to prevent conflicts with HomeBrew on macOS systems.

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githubdocs/MacRelease.md
Added new instructional block with PATH export recommendation (/opt/local/bin:$PATH) to address MacPorts and HomeBrew conflicts on macOS; positioned after Python/pkg-config notes

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  • Straightforward instructional text addition

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🐰 A path through the ports, neat and tidy,
MacPorts first, HomeBrew sits kindly aside,
The rabbit hops through with a harmless :$PATH,
Conflicts now gone—smooth is the path! 🛤️

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Pull request overview

This PR adds documentation about potential conflicts between Homebrew and MacPorts on macOS, specifically guiding users to prioritize MacPorts binaries in their PATH variable.

  • Adds a note warning about Homebrew utility conflicts with MacPorts
  • Provides a command example to prepend MacPorts bin directory to the PATH variable

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- Currently, Mac builds are done on a High Sierra virtual machine, and the binary packages for High Sierra are used, so that is the mininum OS version for the MacOSX Minsky release. Arm64 builds are done on Ventura for the same reason.
- Ports installs of Python do not create a python3 package for pkg-config, rather they are a more specific name like python-3.12.pc. Use find to find the location of the specific .pc file, and link it to python3.pc in the same place, which will allow python builds to work.
- If you have HomeBrew installed, it's utilities may conflict with that of MacPorts. To avoid problems in that case, iit is useful to add the MacPorts bin directory to the front of the PATH variable:
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There's a double 'i' in "iit" - should be "it".

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- If you have HomeBrew installed, it's utilities may conflict with that of MacPorts. To avoid problems in that case, iit is useful to add the MacPorts bin directory to the front of the PATH variable:
- If you have HomeBrew installed, it's utilities may conflict with that of MacPorts. To avoid problems in that case, it is useful to add the MacPorts bin directory to the front of the PATH variable:

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- Currently, Mac builds are done on a High Sierra virtual machine, and the binary packages for High Sierra are used, so that is the mininum OS version for the MacOSX Minsky release. Arm64 builds are done on Ventura for the same reason.
- Ports installs of Python do not create a python3 package for pkg-config, rather they are a more specific name like python-3.12.pc. Use find to find the location of the specific .pc file, and link it to python3.pc in the same place, which will allow python builds to work.
- If you have HomeBrew installed, it's utilities may conflict with that of MacPorts. To avoid problems in that case, iit is useful to add the MacPorts bin directory to the front of the PATH variable:
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The possessive form should use "its" (without an apostrophe) instead of "it's" (which is a contraction for "it is"). Should read: "its utilities may conflict".

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- If you have HomeBrew installed, it's utilities may conflict with that of MacPorts. To avoid problems in that case, iit is useful to add the MacPorts bin directory to the front of the PATH variable:
- If you have HomeBrew installed, its utilities may conflict with that of MacPorts. To avoid problems in that case, iit is useful to add the MacPorts bin directory to the front of the PATH variable:

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