meson 0.58; trouble finding python.

[Lord-Kamina (Gregorio Litenstein)]

I'm making a new port that used the meson-1.0 (Oh, how I hate meson) portgroup. I'm currently having trouble because meson's python module finds /usr/bin/python when asked for python3; even though both python3_select and python_select are installed.

Is this a common occurence, is there a cleaner way to fix this than patching the meson.build file to say python3.9 instead of python3?

I'll ask about this upstream also but considering bigger issues than this have been open for years over there, I don't have much faith.