homebrew fails to upgrade python 2.7.4 - patch failure

[epifanio]

trying to upgrade my system with "brew upgrade"

the python package fails with an error patching the src code : https://gist.github.com/epifanio/e6ee382dfc7440b49ae8

[apjanke]

Looks like this only happens if the --with-dtrace option is specified. Plain brew install python works for me on 10.8.3, but brew install python --with-dtrace fails with these same patch errors. Suspect that the --with-dtrace is being picked up from the reporter's prior installation of python. (Maybe persistent options would be a useful thing to include in the brew upgrade output, at least in --verbose?)

The most recent commit to the python.rb formula says it removed the --with-dtrace option, and the option 'with-dtrace' line is commented out. (fbf7be9) But the patches section still references with-dtrace (at the end of a long line so it's hard to see) and seems to be active.

As a workaround, do a brew rm python; brew install python and it may work.

[apjanke]

And even though the "option" line is commented out, some more logic is left in, so --with-dtrace will still cause configure to be called with it. That probably shouldn't happen. I'm going to adjust the formula to comment out all the with-dtrace logic so it's cleanly disabled.

$ brew install python --with-dtrace |tee python-build-withdtrace.out
==> Downloading http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.4/Python-2.7.4.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/python-2.7.4.tar.bz2
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.4 --enable-ipv6 --datarootdir=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.4/share --datadir=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.4/share --enable-framework=/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.4/Frameworks --without-gcc --with-dtrace CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/opt/sqlite/lib MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.8

[adamv]

Addressed by 1747136