PyCall broken

[dpo]

julia> Pkg.checkout("PyCall")
INFO: Checking out PyCall master...
INFO: Pulling PyCall latest master...
WARNING: julia is fixed at 0.4.5 conflicting with requirement for DistributedArrays: [0.5.0-,∞)
INFO: No packages to install, update or remove

julia> Pkg.update()
...
julia> Pkg.build("PyCall")
INFO: Building PyCall
INFO: PyCall is using /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 (Python 2.7.12) at /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7, libpython = /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/libpython2.7

julia> Pkg.test("PyCall")
INFO: Testing PyCall
Assertion failed: (ctx->gensym_assigned.at(idx)), function emit_expr, file codegen.cpp, line 3155.

signal (6): Abort trap: 6
__pthread_kill at /usr/lib/system/libsystem_kernel.dylib (unknown line)
ERROR: LoadError: Failed to precompile PyCall to /Users/dpo/.julia/lib/v0.4/PyCall.ji
 in error at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in compilecache at loading.jl:400
 in require at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in include at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in include_from_node1 at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in process_options at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in _start at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
while loading /Users/dpo/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/test/runtests.jl, in expression starting on line 1
===============================================[ ERROR: PyCall ]===============================================

failed process: Process(`/usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/bin/julia --check-bounds=yes --code-coverage=none --color=yes /Users/dpo/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/test/runtests.jl`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]

===============================================================================================================
ERROR: PyCall had test errors
 in error at /usr/local/Cellar/julia/0.4.5_1/lib/julia/sys.dylib
 in test at pkg/entry.jl:803
 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:31
 in cd at file.jl:22
 in cd at pkg/dir.jl:31
 in test at pkg.jl:71

[dpo]

Ah sorry. Just found #300 again. I guess I'll just give up on PyCall.

[stevengj]

Why can't you just use the official Julia binary as suggested in #269, rather than the homebrew build?

[stevengj]

(Note that this will also go away in Julia 0.5, where JuliaLang/julia#16546 is fixed.)