cabal-install sometimes gives empty build-log and no build-summary

[bos]

(Imported from Trac #745, reported by @igloo on 2010-10-04)

Building NaturalSort-0.2.1 with GHC 7.0.1 RC 1:

$ cabal install --build-summary=log.bs --build-log=log.bl
Resolving dependencies...
Warning: NaturalSort.cabal: This package requires Cabal version: >=1.6 && <1.9
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
NaturalSort-0.2.1 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
user error (The package requires Cabal library version -any && >=1.6 && <1.9
but no suitable version is installed.)
$ cat log.bs
cat: log.bs: No such file or directory
$ cat log.bl
$

I would like the build log to contain the error.

I have

$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 0.9.2
using version 1.9.2 of the Cabal library

but this is not a released version; if nothing else, I have the #697 patch applied.

[manzyuk]

I tried to reproduce this issue and I can't. I tried to build NaturalSort-0.2.1 with GHC 7.4.1 and Cabal 1.16.03, and I would expect the build to fail due to this line in NaturalSort.cabal: Cabal-Version: >= 1.6 && < 1.9, but it does build, and the log file does contain some log info. No summary file has been produced though.

I also tried to build cal3d, which on my machine fails due to a missing C library, but again the log file contains the error message. The summary file is generated when I try to install the library from Hackage but is not generated when I manually download the source and try to build the library locally, which confirms the behaviour observed in Issue #1189.

[BardurArantsson]

Thanks @manzyuk for trying to reproduce!

Conclusion: (Not reproducible) && (Reported 2010) => Close!