Weechat cannot use the included curl module

[ericboehs]

Edit: I tried installing --with-curl from the old version but not --with-ruby (and a few others) and it worked. So it seems the culprit isn't curl but some combination of the 10 dependencies:

brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/4bdc1ce82824246dfa49d002033e1d6b2fcabe81/Formula/weechat.rb --with-python@2 --with-perl --with-curl

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• What you were trying to do (and why)
  Download a script via /script install within weechat
• What happened (include command output)
  The script was not downloaded. No output was displayed.
• What you expected to happen
  The script to be able to download succesfully
• Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew install commands)
  brew install weechat # See repro gist below

Investigation

I investigated this a bit as everything was working perfectly from my two-week old install of weechat. (Originally I installed weechat with brew install weechat --with-python@2.) I wanted to install a perl script within weechat so I uninstalled weechat and ran the same command with --with-perl appended. I was greeted with some warnings saying the flags were ignored.

I looked at the history of the weechat formula and saw that all the options had been added to the build command per #31510. I tried using the previous version of the weechat formula with success (I ran brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/4bdc1ce82824246dfa49d002033e1d6b2fcabe81/Formula/weechat.rb --with-python@2 --with-perl).

One-by-one, I added dependencies until I narrowed it down to installing weechat with --with-curl. I'm not sure what is causing this to fail on my machine but I'd be interested to see if others are experiencing this.

Gist Log: https://gist.github.com/ericboehs/6ee5df63b8a8aa6d6832dbcb23aa85e1
Script to reproduce: https://gist.github.com/ericboehs/b76b7f20e72735337040041d694f239d

[SMillerDev]

So "with-curl" makes it fail?

[MikeMcQuaid]

brew uninstall --force weechat; brew install weechat should get you a working installation again. We have removed the options from this formula.

[ericboehs]

@SMillerDev Yes.

@MikeMcQuaid That did not fix it. Please see above where I noted that this is happening since the options were removed from the formula.

Has anyone tried the repro script I provided?

[MikeMcQuaid]

@ericboehs If you brew uninstall --force weechat; brew install weechat do you have the same problem?

Has anyone tried the repro script I provided?

I believe that you're right on that but that alone doesn't point to a solution.

[ericboehs]

@MikeMcQuaid Yes. I did per your last comment. It does not help. I'm interested to see if others have the issue I'm having.

If this is a widespread problem, I'd think we'd want to remove --with-curl from the default installation option. I don't know the reasons --with-curl was originally added, perhaps we could lookup the commits/authors to find out more.

Since there are approximately 50 installs of weechat a day, I'd expect a handful of users coming to report this issue by now.

[MikeMcQuaid]

If this is a widespread problem, I'd think we'd want to remove --with-curl from the default installation option. I don't know the reasons --with-curl was originally added, perhaps we could lookup the commits/authors to find out more.

We're not passing an option, we're just providing a curl dependency. If that's enough to break weechat it seems like a bug in weechat itself.

[ericboehs]

I don't know enough about homebrew or weechat to weigh in on where the bug lies. I'm just reporting that since commit 692c152, where curl became a required dependency of weechat, I can no longer use integral features of weechat.

[ericboehs]

It looks like this is a known issue over at weechat's issues: weechat/weechat#359

They closed the issue saying that it's not an issue with weechat.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@ericboehs I've tried to reproduce this in #36409 but it fails with or without the curl dependency for me. Mind taking a look?

[javian]

Your gist-log states -- Found CURL: /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib (found version "7.54.0") meaning that it picks up the system curl and not the Homebrew one. Could this be the cause ?

[MikeMcQuaid]

I've tried and failed to reproduce or fix this issue in #36409 and resetting back to old versions and an unable to do so. @ericboehs if you're able to make a PR that fixes this issue we'll happily review it.

[ericboehs]

@javian I didn't realize what gist-logs was doing; I was just mindlessly following the GitHub Issue template. Here is the output from brew gist-logs weechat after installing the most recent (failing) version of weechat from homebrew: https://gist.github.com/ericboehs/66f67393cb20f7751f3ba7f1228368c1.

[ericboehs]

This has been resolved per 73183d2. For more info, see the related pull request: #36409.