brew reporting required dependencies as missing test dependencies

[nwhetsell]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.6.20-143-g10845a1
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 10845a1122b916dc91d04f00a4d8b7b888d52654
Last commit: 25 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 3c1408e72eaa44545ead62fff22a0866a42033ae
Core tap last commit: 4 days ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 16
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.10 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby
CPU: 16-core 64-bit kabylake
Clang: 14.0.0 build 1400
Git: 2.37.1 => /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/git
Curl: 7.79.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 12.6.2-x86_64
CLT: 14.2.0.0.1.1668646533
Xcode: 14.2

Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

Sometime between Jan 21 (I believe) and today, brew began reporting required dependencies that are installed as test dependencies that are missing. If I run—

brew install lilypond
brew test lilypond

—I get:

Error: lilypond is missing test dependencies: guile

Here’s the relevant output of brew info lilypond on my machine (note guile ✔ in the list of required dependencies):

==> lilypond: stable 2.24.0 (bottled)
Music engraving system
https://lilypond.org
/usr/local/Cellar/lilypond/2.24.0_1 (448 files, 28.9MB) *
  Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2023-01-28 at 05:48:21
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/lilypond.rb
License: GPL-3.0-or-later and GPL-3.0-only and OFL-1.1-RFN and GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later and Public Domain and MIT and AGPL-3.0-only and LPPL-1.3c
==> Dependencies
Build: bison ✘, fontforge ✘, gettext ✔, libpthread-stubs ✘, pkg-config ✔, t1utils ✘, texinfo ✘, texlive ✘
Required: fontconfig ✔, freetype ✔, ghostscript ✔, guile ✔, pango ✔, python@3.11 ✔

If I run—

brew install csound
brew test csound

—I get:

Error: csound is missing test dependencies: openjdk

Here’s the relevant output of brew info csound on my machine (note openjdk ✔ in the list of required dependencies):

==> csound: stable 6.18.1 (bottled)
Sound and music computing system
https://csound.com
/usr/local/Cellar/csound/6.18.1_1 (125 files, 13.5MB) *
  Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2023-01-28 at 06:02:29
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/csound.rb
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
==> Dependencies
Build: asio ✘, cmake ✘, eigen ✘, swig ✘
Required: faust ✔, fltk ✔, fluid-synth ✔, gettext ✔, hdf5 ✔, jack ✔, lame ✔, liblo ✔, libpng ✔, libsamplerate ✔, libsndfile ✔, libwebsockets ✔, numpy ✔, openjdk ✔, portaudio ✔, portmidi ✔, python@3.11 ✔, stk ✔, wiiuse ✔

Tests are passing at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/actions, so I’ve most likely fat-fingered something on my machine, but I’m at a loss for how to fix this.

[SMillerDev]

What if you use export HOMEBREW_NO_API_INSTALL=1?

[nwhetsell]

The same thing happens with export HOMEBREW_NO_API_INSTALL=1.

[gromgit]

Er, that should be export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1.

[nwhetsell]

@gromgit That fixed it!

[Amar1729]

For any authors of homebrew taps older than a few weeks (like me) finding this issue: make sure to update your github workflows with this variable if you're seeing test failures!

env:
  HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API: 1